Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy will give men in the two upper classes more discretion in arranging their own time. Students on probation cannot take part in any extra-curricular activities...
...cannot imagine how I just long for these conversations," said O'Mahoney ironically...
...atomic bomb has two "subcritical masses" of plutonium or uranium 235. When the two masses are far away from each other, nothing happens. The neutrons generated spontaneously within each piece escape so rapidly through the surface that a chain reaction cannot get started. But when the two pieces are brought close together, the neutrons stay in the uranium longer. By splitting uranium atoms and thus releasing more neutrons, they start a nuclear chain reaction which does not stop until the explosion has scattered the fissionable material...
...Virgin and Child in a field of stars. The east wall will be more ambitious than anything Matisse ever tried, combining all 14 Stations of the Cross-from the Condemnation by Pilate to the Descent from the Cross-in a mounting S-curve of pictures. Since Matisse cannot work for long on his feet, he will be unable to paint the pictures on the walls directly, plans to do them on tile which will afterward be baked and placed in position. He hopes that the painting will have the same sort of impact that he himself once received from Giotto...
...prickly Father Moynihan, engrossed in his scheme, Leo G. Carroll (Angel Street, The Late George Apley) is adroit as always, but he cannot do much more than brighten things up the way flowers do a sickroom. Everything in Jenny Kissed Me is well meant and almost nothing is well handled: it dawdles when it should skip, and sits gabbily on when it should make its excuses...