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...York trials in 1949-1950. The author's failure here is a different one: in their desire to keep the book to size they have had to omit material, but their omissions have not been judicious. For example, seven pages are allotted to copious quotation of prosecutor Tom Murphy's summation, in the first trial. Defense attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker made some significant point in his summation, too, but one can not tell this from the single page the authors have allotted to Stryker's speech...
...Illinois betatron are too powerful to use in treating cancer or for photographing, say, the innards of battleships. Instead of merely passing through matter, they stir up showers of high-speed electrons which fog a photographic plate. The principal purpose of the Illinois betatron will be to produce copious supplies of mesons, the particles which are thought to be connected with the "binding force" that holds atomic nuclei together. Powerful X rays knock mesons out of the nuclei. Said Professor Donald William Kerst, developer of the betatron and builder of the Illinois machine: "We are in business, making mesons...
Brigham Young did not live to see that copious pouring. The first classes of the University of Deseret were attended by 25 pioneers in a log cabin. The next year the university admitted a few shy young women clad in their Sunday best, thus became one of the first coeducational state universities in the country. But in 1852 the school had to close down from lack of funds; it did not reopen until 1867. Two years later, a scholarly non-Mormon gold prospector, Dr. John Rocky Park, became president and began to build what was to become the modern University...
Despite a persistent rain and unmanageable streets, over 100 persons came to Felix's Garfield Street residence to help eat four roast turkeys, six legs of lamb, to deplete a copious liquor supply, and to dance the zenbeikiko, a dance of ancient Greece...
...most eminent physician in the U.S. The "cure" he hit upon came from a clue in a manuscript on yellow fever written half a century before by a part-time physician and mapmaker. Rush's cure consisted simply of massive mercury (i.e., calomel) and jalap purges and copious bloodletting. When he tried it on a hopeless case and saw his patient recover, he used it on others, soon broadcast to the world that the yellow fever was licked...