Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money. After looking over the field, Maurice concluded that his money would do the most good at the University of Chicago. The university was already spending upwards of $500,000 a year on cancer research. The scientists of several departments, including nuclear physicists who helped develop the atom bomb, had worked out a cooperative program to find cancer's cause & cure...
Katharine Cornell is competent and lively as Cleopatra, but hardly right: she seems conscientiously rather than constitutionally wily and sluttish. Marc Antony is played by English Actor Godfrey Tearle (whose close resemblance to F.D.R. won him the role of the U.S. wartime President in MGM's atom-bomb movie, The Beginning or the End). As the ablest Roman of them all brought low by middle-aged lust, Tearle is brilliantly effective...
Dark Descent. Miss West's book is a descent into the circles of a drab inferno. It was reached through several pit heads-the bomb-battered building of London's Central Criminal Court, the House of Lords, a court martial near the blitzed waterfront at Portsmouth. Above all, it was reached through the collapsing corridors of many ruined minds...
...Alan Nunn May had been for years a member of the Communist Party. He had been a lecturer on physics at the University of London. During World War II, he volunteered for service as the senior member of the nuclear physics division of the atomic bomb project. Then he had turned over to Russia samples of uranium 235 enriched and uranium 233. Says Miss West: "If Russia ever drops an atomic bomb on Great Britain or America, the blame for the death and the blindness and .the sores it scatters will rest largely on this fatuous and gifted...
...There are only two foolish peoples in the world," observed Atomic Physicist Harold C. Urey, "the U.S. and Russia. . . ." Basis for his observation: they "are making and intend to make atom bombs, and they think themselves powerful." There is no military defense against the bomb, said Urey. He gave the U.S. about a year more of monopoly...