Word: braxton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing straight ahead. Next winter, she will live in Buckinghamshire, England, write a biography of her ancestor Carter Braxton, who signed the Declaration of Independence for Virginia...
Neutrons have about the same mass as the heart of a hydrogen atom, but they are much smaller. Dr. George Braxton Pegram and his associates at Columbia have set the neutron diameter at one ten-trillionth of an inch. Unlike electrons, positrons, protons and deuterons, neutrons have no electric charge. Hence they make splendid projectiles for bombardment since they are not repelled by the positive charges on the atomic nuclei. Alpha particles knock neutrons in quantity out of beryllium and other light elements at speeds up to 30,000 miles per second. When the neutron hits a nucleus it either...
...irregular, capable of every atrocity from horse-stealing to killing the wounded. Biographer Swiggett says Morgan obeyed the rules of civilized warfare, but admits his men were fond of ambushing Federal pickets, of suddenly displaying a flag of truce to get themselves out of a tight corner. Braxton West Pointer, who was Morgan's nominal commander, disliked him, disapproved of his aims and methods. But Morgan's gallantry and success in raiding through Kentucky and Ohio soon made him a bogeyman to the North, a hero to the South. One of his tricks was to capture a telegraph station, send...
Before they could reach that conclusion even with the powerful wave mathematics developed by Germany's Erwin Schrodinger, Drs. George Braxton Pegram, John R. Dunning and Isidor Isaac Rabi had to lead their particles like circus animals through a complex series of hoops & hurdles. Beryllium powder was placed in a glass tube containing the radioactive gas radon. Alpha particles from the radon knocked neutrons out of the beryllium. First hurdle was a metal ring which deflected part of the neutron beam toward a cylindrical detection chamber less than an inch across, a half-inch deep. The chamber...
...Piney Woods lately came disaster. Its surplus funds, $2,000 for current expenses, were in the Braxton Bank. The bank closed; all the money was lost temporarily, some of it perhaps permanently. Wrote Principal Jones last week: "Our Southern white friends have no money but are helping us out with provisions and other necessities until we can hear from our friends up North...