Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico's able Senator Carl A. Hatch withdrew this week as a candidate for reelection. Stated reason: he wants a federal judgeship. Another reason: there is some doubt that he could defeat Republican Patrick J. Hurley. Most New Mexico Democrats thought that the man who could beat Hurley was Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson; they hoped he would quit the Cabinet soon and take up Hatch's lance...
...Carl C. Countryman of New York, who is campaigning for President on the slogan: "Countryman for his countrymen, his countrymen for Countryman," suffered the loss of a gold-plated musical saw he had played for 25 years. "My heart is busted," said the 74-year-old poet-teacher-lecturer...
Mesons are mysterious, short-lived particles knocked out of .atomic nuclei. It takes a lot of punch to knock them out. Before the 4,000-ton cyclotron developed sufficient punch, the only mesons in captivity had been trapped in the wild. Dr. Carl Anderson of CalTech found their characteristic tracks in a cloud chamber. Other scientists found two types, heavy and light, in photographic plates exposed on high mountains. All had been formed by cosmic rays, the enormously powerful particles that strike down out of space. No man-pushed particle was strong enough to engender a single meson...
...winners, who appear above are: Front row Carl D. Bottenfield, John T. Hazel, Roy M. Goodman, and Frederick M. Malkow. Back row--Robert A. Foldman, Jefferson Watkins V. Bruea LaSala, and A. Werner Plans...
...Poet Carl Sandburg, who had been paid $60,000 in advance to deliver a novel to M-G-M within ten months, sheepishly turned in a 1,480-page work called Remembrance Rock-five years late. Explained Sandburg: "I got interested...