Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took the problem of human values as seriously as we take the atomic bomb," Morris says, "we could go places very fast...
...music building's porch blew its glass top over spring vacation. Neither an earthquake nor an atomic bomb, but a ruling by the University's Grounds Committee did away with the attractive but defective structure...
...Joseph G. Hamilton, pioneering with it at the University of California complained that it lost its radioactivity too fast' Physicist Glenn Seaborg nodded, said-"I'll see what I can find." He found iodine-131 -Which is also believed to be the vital element in the H-bomb.*Thanks to the accident of prior discovery, radium has never been brought under similar control. Anyone can buy as much as he can afford and carry it home in his pocket. It might cost him $500,000 an ounce, but for a mere $3,000 he can get enough...
...dangerous when the country was thrust, by its own power and success, into the leading position in world politics. Americans had always felt guilty about using power (except, of course, in an economic way); suddenly they found themselves forced to rely on an ultimate form of power, the atom bomb, to preserve peace. Americans had thought of themselves as the "tutors of mankind in its pilgrimage to perfection," innocent of ulterior ambition or guile. Now they found themselves "condemned in a court of public opinion" by have-not nations, who regarded the virtuous prosperity of the U.S. as a sign...
...average reader is more apt to remember the little pranks and foolish escapades of several students. It is not only this face-slapping record. It is an accumulation of all the trivial stunts of students through the years that can hurt a college's reputation. That includes the water-bomb incidents, the disengaged trolley wires, goldfish swallowing, etc. Things like that give the public the impression that colleges are nothing but kindergartens in which well-to-do young men idle away their time...