Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arrangement with Peters. Bit by bit during previous congressional hearings, Alger Hiss had admitted knowing Chambers more than just casually as a magazine writer around Washington; finally he had admitted giving Chambers, his wife and daughter temporary haven in his home. Now Chambers reconstructed again a story of close intimacy between the two families, adding new details, recounting trips he had taken with the Hisses...
...honor of Scientist Dr. Hidelci Yukawa, Nobel Prizewinner in physics who is now teaching at Columbia University, Emperor Hirohito whittled out a bit of Japanese verse: / am very pleased to see The news in this morning's paper...
...insistence on keeping courses "up to date," says Smith, the school has done its modern work at the expense of basic knowledge. Smith discovered schoolchildren who knew quite a bit about the organizations of the League of Nations and the United Nations ("a meaningless parroting of their elders") but had no idea, for instance, where Geneva...
...been formed in the pile's uranium rods, it must be separated from the uranium by a chemical operation which is delicate and difficult, because the rods are fiercely radioactive. All the manipulations in the refining process must be performed by remote control from behind massive shields. Every bit of apparatus that has been used in refining plutonium is poisoned and dangerous to handle...
Faculty members use the service quite a bit. I.A. Richards, University Professor, has had the group microfilm slides for his Basic English and Basic French work., L. Don Leet, Ph.D. '30, professor of Geology, uses the service to have seismology graphs reproduced...