Word: contained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ominous quiet prevailed at Walla Walla this autumn as officials longed for the day when new facilities would be built to contain men like the July rioters. When state legislators finally approved funds for desperately needed construction, it seemed the situation might finally be brought under control. But last week Warden Lawrence Delmore received crushing news from the State Supreme Court: the legislature's' prison appropriation was unconstitutional...
When the present French Assembly expires, all France-and most of the rest of the world, too-will find it easy to contain its grief. In 4½ years, the Assembly has overthrown six governments, spent one week out of every five bogged down in a Cabinet crisis, tabled more than 13,000 bills while approving less than 1,000. Last week the Deputies were maneuvered into voting themselves out of office six months before their time...
...microwaves, which have the property of adding small amounts of energy to atoms they hit. He shot microwaves through one "state" of hydrogen and turned it into the other "state." Since energy was absorbed in this transition, he had proved that the two states of hydrogen did not contain the same amount of energy. The difference was small but extremely important from the point of view of theory...
...instance, that if all the chemical elements were formed during the first "big bang," all the stars that can be observed should be made of the same mixture of elements. This is not the case. Some stars are made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, while others contain considerable amounts of middleweight and heavy elements. These must have been formed in some way that is not accounted for in the big bang theory...
Countering the HYRC claim that the Forum would contain "incipient unification," David Titus '56, president of the United Nations Council, said that "We do not wish to unite. We only want to discuss common problems...