Word: ceres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's ground-breaking cere, mony there was some talk of peacetime research, the aspect of nuclear physics that interests scientists most. Everyone present knew some of the things that atomic science offers to humanity: new medical advances, a deeper understanding of biology, perhaps unlimited energy to do the world's heavy work. But it may be a very long time before science can get busy on such matters. Commissioner Sumner T. Pike of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission did not sound very encouraging about it. Peaceful applications of nuclear science, he said, have...
Readers recalled the old Prussian cere mony of offering a defeated fellow officer a cigaret, a revolver, one bullet...
Only with a separate air force, says he, will the men who understand global air power be able to create real - and by real he means -of air- power for the U.S. Meantime, says unmodest, sin cere Sascha de Seversky: "Those of us who have grasped the meaning of genuine air power have a clear function to per form. It is to hammer away, day and night, even at the risk of making ourselves a nuisance, at the mind and conscience of our country...