Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical pile is a 20-foot block of graphite (pure carbon) interlarded with lumps of fissionable uranium. The chain begins with the capture of a neutron by a uranium atom. When the atom "fishes" (splits by fission), neutrons released by the reaction fly off at more than 6,000 miles a second. To give the neutrons a maximum chance of being captured by other uranium atoms, they are slowed to "thermal" speed-roughly 3 m.p.s. Normally a neutron slows down to that speed after about 110 collisions with carbon atoms...
...since those happy days Slaughter had voted against or helped block many of Harry Truman's pet measures; as a member of the potent House Rules Committee, he had embarrassed the Administration on the Hill time & again...
...soon as they touched gloves last week in Yankee Stadium, handsome Billy Conn, grinning hideously through his mouthpiece, moved in close to Joe Louis, muttered "Take it easy . . . we've got 15 rounds to go." By the third round, jeers began in the $30 seats, a half block away. In the $100 zone, Moscow's Andrei Gromyko (guest of Bernard M. Baruch) and Hollywood's Ann Sheridan were perhaps as disgusted, but more polite about it. In seven rounds, hardly a solid blow landed...
...court's opinion, the defendants have clearly been violating the Sherman Antitrust Act through a complex system of fixed admission prices, block-booking, pooling arrangements, and franchises. In general, said the court, these practices would have to go; in particular, block-booking would have to give way to the auction setup in which any exhibitor could freely bid for any new films. Moreover, the exhibitor would not have to buy in blocks-i.e., take three bad films to get one good one. But the court felt that forcing the producers to sell their theaters was too drastic...
...years ago when Lennart Strand was 22, he did not realize that he was a runner of promise. Just out of the Swedish Army, he heard that famed Gunder Hägg lived in the same block and volunteered to work out with him. He entered a few races, proved to be a first-rate pacesetter and gradually became known in Sweden as "Hägg's rabbit." One day, the rabbit turned on the dog; Strand was in front of Hägg at the finish line. Paavo Nurmi exclaimed: "The most outstanding runner I have ever seen...