Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before the atomic bomb was first tested in New Mexico, a distinguished scientist offered an uncollectible bet: ten-to-one that the bomb would set off a chain reaction in the atmosphere. His colleagues were pretty sure that the planet would not go up in that particular explosion. But many scientists think that some future bomb, or series of bombs, may well have the power to end the world...
...Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, was awarded one-third of the $30,000 Nobel Prize in medicine; sharing it with him were two less publicized British penicillinists-Sir Howard Walter Florey, organizer of the research team which found practical means of extracting the capricious drug, and Dr. Ernst Boris Chain, the team's chief research genius...
...teacher was Robert Henri, leader of the "Ash Can School" of painting, who scorned pastoral prettiness in art. In his teens Davis obediently wandered the streets of New York, sketching what he saw. He learned to love the rattling, ironwork kaleidoscope of city life, the eye-catching colors of chain-store fronts, gasoline pumps and taxicabs; the bright blinking of electric signs, and the hot beat and glare of Negro jazz. John Sloan, one of the Philadelphia Press artists, chose Davis' early work for the magazine The Masses, the bible...
Accumulated Dividends. In Reno, a new type of chain letter, using wives instead of dimes for currency, promised each man who kept up the chain 16,781 women...
Pierre Laval spent his last days in sackcloth in the death row of the Fresnes prison. He wrote farewell letters to his family, his lawyers. He chain-smoked. His grieving wife cried that the people who "got France into the war so unprepared" now wanted to silence him with death. General Charles de Gaulle refused every request for a new or re-opened trial; the grotesquerie of the first one had revolted all France...