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When a film is developed, silver atoms clump together in tiny islands. It used to be assumed that these clumps were a grainy, cokelike mass. It was just an assumption, because no ordinary microscope could penetrate the clumps. In the Eastman laboratories, Researcher C. E. Hall made electron pictures magnifying the silver islands 25,000 times. Then it was seen that they were composed of tangled, thin strands of silver, some of them only a few atoms thick. "The developed grains," said Dr. Mees. "resemble masses of seaweed rather than coke...
...falling, the U. S. Government takes out a license, takes down a fowling piece, and goes gunning for election frauds. The bag is never very notable, but the bang-bang is heartening and salutary. Last week the loudest shooting came from New Jersey, where vote frauds shook every clump of underbrush...
...beginning Dr. Gamow pictures an enormously hot, tremendously dense gas expanding in space. As it expanded, it thinned and cooled. Chance aggregations began to clump together out of the mass, to contract by gravity. These were infant stars. They were very large, and diffuse, relatively cool...
...locale of The Hamlet is Frenchman's Bend, a little clump of houses sunk 20 miles deep in the country from Jefferson (presumably Oxford), Miss. The time is the late 19th Century. What the story's essential subject is, God-and just possibly William Faulkner-knows. Apparently it is a study of the village itself, chiefly in terms of an evil clan of intruders named Snopes. The volume is built in four books, like the four movements of a symphony...
...After this barrage had cleared away ... four thirty-ton Russian tanks appeared from a timber clump and started advancing across the snowy waste to the foot of the hill. Crouched behind each tank were about twenty men, using it as a shield...