Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author of the second offering, a musical comedy on the atom bomb, is Sheldon Glueck, professor of Criminal Law and Criminalology at the Law School. Glueck sired the book and lyrics, while William Hughes, student of international law at the University of Chicago, fathered the music...
...data would be studied with bated breath, would yield new understanding of the birth of mesons. Eventually, perhaps, the grateful physicists might repay the Army with a cataclysmic meson-bomb...
...between the publication of Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity (1905) and the explosion of the first atomic bomb (1945), science had a glorious period never equaled before. On dozens of fronts it swept ahead. From laboratories and observatories, from scholars' quiet studies in rapid succession came startling discoveries, most of them wrapped in an opaque web of higher mathematics...
...Arthur Eddington, Jeans's closest rival, died in 1 B.B. (Before the Bomb). Jeans himself died in 2 A.B. The two Englishmen left no one to take their place. So far, the terrifying discoveries of the nuclear physicists have found no comparable interpreters...
...there was no sign that the Daily News, in losing Patterson, had lost his "common touch." Its headlines still crackled (IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, u.s. ANSWER TO TITO); its editorials were still full of beans. Its latest comment on those who would share, or ban, the atom bomb: We SAY IT'S SPINACH AND WE SAY THE HELL WITH...