Word: calls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write to each other. When Lillian's distant Pen Pal found himself getting into trouble with the Nazis, Father Wolfram undertook to get him out of the Reich and last week he arrived, a robust 18 to Lillian's sweet 16. "I am a Jew and just call me Harry," he smilingly told ship-newscameramen for whom he readily posed. "I am afraid that, if I told you my family name, harm might come to my mother...
...seemed to be no place for it in the physical scheme. Then it was recalled that the Japanese physicist, Yukawa, had postulated the existence of just such a thing to help explain energy exchanges in the atomic nucleus. In honor of Yukawa, there is a tendency in Europe to call the particles yukons. The name barytron ("heavy particle") is gaining favor in the U. S. At the American Physical Society's convention in Chicago last week, barytrons were a popular subject of discussion...
...That was about 1600. Late in the 19th Century, Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, discovered that-although magnetism is gradually lost with rising temperature-an abrupt change occurs at a certain heat above which iron, nickel and cobalt cease in effect to be magnetic. This critical temperature chemists call the Curie point. These two discoveries underlie the operating principle of a new alloy announced last week in Instruments ("The Magazine of Measurement and Control...
...Witzleben [his onetime advertising manager] said to me, 'Mr. Hill, I think a fellow has a suggestion here you might be interested in.' And I said, 'What is it?' And he said, 'He suggests we put out a new cigaret at ten cents and call it "Buddies."' I said, 'Willie, get out of here. You know very well I have got a book...
...West. In the first place, it is unfortunate but true that there is a great lack of man power of Supreme Court caliber in the West. Although there are numerous sound conservative possibilities, it is, of courts, inconceivable that anyone but a fairly rampant liberal would get the call from the White House...