Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, veteran white-thatched Chief Clerk John Crockett droned through the 21 major recommendations, while bored and busy Senators drifted out. Soon only a dozen remained. Clerk Crockett adroitly skipped a sizable chunk of the message (24 pages), wound up in 23 minutes flat...
Harvard has its Murphy Scholarship and has usually been able to find a bright little Murphy to win the stipend. But someone named Leavenworth once gave Yale a chunk of fortune to ensure the blessings of the higher education for his descendants-and Yale is stuck without a Leaven-worth...
...important chunk of that business was Mr. Soong's brand-new, still secret treaty with Soviet Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS). On its content and origins, Prime Minister Soong was mum. But Washington buzzed with accounts which threw the clearest light yet on the nature and purpose of official U.S. policy in Asia. The gist...
...getting rid of the U-238. It was simple in principle, like drying the water content out of a sodden fuel. But the physicists shuddered when they finished their calculations. No chain reaction, they found, could take place in a small bit of U-235, but a large enough chunk would surely explode...
...problem, once they had the big chunk, might be to keep it from exploding whenever it was struck by any wandering neutron. The explosion, they calculated, would certainly be more violent than anything yet seen on earth...