Word: collisional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atom Building. Patiently, the University of Chicago's Dr. William Draper Harkins sat beside a nitrogen tube and took 10.000 photographs, attempting to get an "atom collision" on the print. Each turned out badly, revealed nothing.
Yet the Harvard effort to balance the budget by discharging a few scrubwomen rather than pay them two extra cents an hour, as urged by the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, brings the tough-minded realism of the school of business administration into conflict with the more tender-minded humanities, which...