Word: coring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fermi played with last spring was uranium. Uranium, discovered in 1789, is the mother stuff of radium, and the heaviest element on earth (twice as heavy as tin). Astronomers believe that elements heavier than uranium must exist in the interior of the sun. Geologists admit that perhaps near the core of the earth may be something heavier than uranium. But there certainly has been none anywhere near the earth's surface where man can lay his hands on it-until possibly last week...
...desert heft of the rest of Arabia. To prevent even this from attaining true unity, it was divided into various territories: the Kingdom of the Hejaz, the principalities of Asir and Yemen, the British-controlled Hadramaut, Oman on the tip of the Persian gulf, and Nejd, the great central core. What they did not reckon on was the mettle of the man who had already won for himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better known as Ibn Saud...
...indeed a tribute to Miss Bergner's talent that she could manage to be impressive while struggling against the combined efforts of a hackneyed plot and a supporting cast which spent most of its time in striking poses which, though they were undoubtedly Teutonic to the core, removed most of the life from the proceedings...
FROM the earliest plays of O'Neill there has been a recurrent struggle to find some essence in man and his universe beyond its tragic appearance: that naturalistic appearance which is the core of "The Moon in the Caribees" and "Desire Under the Eims." We may call it a cosmic yearning for a God of eternal meaning, but this philosophical and poetic urge has seemed always to be only half in earnest, at once passionately sought for and scornfully east aside. In "Strange Interlude" there are poetic outbursts from Nina identifying God with herself as an all-compassionate Mother...
James Bryant Conant is a lineal descendant of Roger Conant, founder of Salem, Mass., and of Plymouth Colony's Governor William Bradford. A New Englander to the core, he loves New England and Harvard. In 1915 an Ohio rubber company offered him the top post in its research division. Said Graduate Student Conant, 22: "I'm going to be married and the kind of woman I'd marry wouldn't live in Ohio. If she would I wouldn't marry...