Word: cold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...W.F.T.U. was founded at Paris in 1945, the C.I.O., with which Bridges' militant International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union is still affiliated, was a member. The A.F.L. was not. Last January the C.I.O., fed up with fighting the Communist line in the W.F.T.U., quit it cold. Representatives of 36 nations met last month in Geneva to set up an anti-Communist international labor organization. The C.I.O. attended-and so did the A.F.L. The new organization will speak for some 42 million anti-Communist trade union members. It will not speak for Harry Bridges...
Early last year a 14-man committee of prominent Quakers began a study of the cold war. They talked things over with high U.S. diplomatic officials and with such visiting Soviet bigwigs as Andrei Gromyko and Jacob Malik. Last week the Quaker proposal, a 28-page report, was delivered to Secretary of State Dean Acheson and to Soviet Ambassador Alexander S. Panyushkin...
Science speaks of few absolutes. One of the few is absolute zero: -273.16 centigrade. At this temperature, the haphazard motion of the molecules (the action called heat) is wholly stilled. Close to this point of death-still cold, matter acts in strange ways. Liquid helium climbs out of containers; the electrical resistance of metals disappears. Because scientists see stranger phenomena the closer they get to absolute zero, experimenters like to imagine working their way down to the very bottom of the temperature scale...
...current Scientific Monthly, Dr. John F. Allen of St. Andrews University, Scotland, tells how they are going about it. The common method of creating cold-compressing and expanding gases-works only as far down as about one degree above absolute zero. So the scientists turned to a cold-creating method based on the fact that atoms in certain crystalline salts act like little magnets...
...such profound cold the molecules will be almost deathly still. Zero itself'will not have been reached. Ityis a will-o'-the-wisp game that physicists play: zero can be pursued and approached, but never actually captured...