Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uranium is a tricky element. As it comes from the mines, it contains only .7% of the active isotope U-235, whose atoms "fission" (split in two) with a big release of energy. Nearly all the rest is 11-238, an idle isotope which will not fission naturally, though its heavy nucleus contains about the same energy...
Higgledy-Piggledy. But of course, added Berlin, "many of these excellent young people could not . . . either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities. That is to say, their thoughts came higgledy-piggledy out of the big, buzzing, booming confusion of their minds, too many pouring out chaotically in the same instant . . . Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect and to discriminate...
Though each of Hilton's hotels is different from the others, together they form a rich pattern of 20th Century U.S. hotel life. In the U.S., more than any other country, the big hotel has become a city in itself. There, says Hilton, "you could live out a full life without ever going out of doors. They have nightclubs, banquet halls and shopping centers. You can read a book in the library and use the safe deposit vault as a bank. If you get sick, there's a hospital, with a doctor and a nurse. You can park...
...over in the hotel-building '20s. He is now eyeing land in Atlanta, Beverly Hills and Havana. But he does not think that anyone will ever again build huge hotels like those he gobbled up in the last few years. Nor does he expect to buy any more big ones, at least not right away. With the air of a tired conqueror he asks: "After all, where can you go from the Waldorf...
...General Tunner was looking into the future, the Air Force already had two planes which come close to filling his bill. One of them, the Douglas Globemaster II (C-124), made its first test flight last week. It can carry 50,000 Ibs., has clamshell doors in its nose big enough to drive a truck through. It falls short mainly in its range, 1,500 miles...