Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later that fall, officials of the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital found him amid the bomb rubble, frail and ill but still alive...
...Nobel Prize in Physics for 1954 was divided between two Germans: Drs. Max Born and Walther Bothe, who were leaders in the "new physics" that started with relativity and quantum theory and ended (so far) with the hydrogen bomb. Dr. Born, 72, who fled Germany in the mid-'30s is credited with much of the difficult mathematics that enabled physicists to understand the behavior of atoms...
Bishop Sheen spoke on the "Psychological Effects of the Hydrogen Bomb" and, as usual, tempered the ominous parts of his message with a sprinkling of jokes and puns. The bishop also scored a partial triumph over his sponsor, Admiral Corp., which last summer announced that the show would be limited to some 60-odd stations. Bishop Sheen countered by promising his fans that he would be seen on "close to 200 stations." His opening show was carried by 126 stations, and at week's end Du Mont reported that the number had reached...
...airmen's bold onslaughts would cow the British into seeking peace. But when they didn't, the mighty Luftwaffe, terror of Warsaw and Rotterdam, was shown up as too weak for decisive warfare, equipped with fighters lacking in range and Stukas too short on speed and bomb load to destroy Britain's plane factories. The irony of the matter, says Galland, was that the Allies, not Germany, learned from the Luftwaffe's failure to produce great masses of four-engine bombers and long-range fighters. Called to command in Berlin, Goring's young adviser...
...advanced students a History of Military Warfare. These are the courses, however, which most aptly fit into the sphere of liberal education. Certainly they would stand the two-year man in better stead than learning the armed forces' pay rates, the powder charge in a 10,000-pound bomb, and the differing millimeters of shells...