Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have announced that when a sample of rock is bombarded with neutrons (heavy nuclear particles) from the cyclotron, some elements in the ore become radioactive and give off particles which can be detected either 1) on a photographic film in contact with the ore, or 2) with a Geiger counter, an instrument which clicks or marks a tape as each particle shoots through it. Since each element has a unique rate of radioactive decay (e.g., radioactivity of manganese declines by one-half every 2.5 hours, of gold every 2.5 days), the identity and quantity of the hidden elements is readily...
Against this obvious strategy the U.$. and its Allies last week met to devise a counter strategy. In Washington, where President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill conferred (see p. 11), in Moscow, where Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden wound up his talks with Premier Joseph Stalin, in Chungking, where the strategists of three nations met (see p. 24), in many a military and naval chart room across the world the same grave decisions were faced: at what points on the worldwide battlefront could the Allies best throw their strength? And how much strength could they throw...
...deep radio voice of a worn, heavy man named Carroll Alcott. The dispatches indicated that Jap broadcasts from scores of stations in Japan and occupied China were glutting the Asiatic air with "news" in Chinese, Burmese, Malayan and other tongues; that in default of good Allied counter-propaganda the "news" was taking effect. Carroll Alcott, who surely ought to know, had been warning about this for a long time...
Nonetheless, University of Cincinnati's President Raymond Walters, semiofficial U.S. campus nose-counter, reported last fortnight that the draft and defense jobs had cut enrollment in 669 leading colleges an average of 9.16% this fall. Stirred by this statistic and the U.S. entry into the war, many colleges last week announced plans for speeding up a college education without watering its quality: > Yale, Harvard and Princeton jointly launched a scheme to cut their course from four to less than three years by staying in session all year round. All three will let freshmen start next June instead...
...only alternative is the self-service plan suggested last year and turned down cold. Self-service would mean that a student eating in the houses would pick up his own food from a counter and carry it back to his table. It is not cafeteria style, for there would be no more choice of food than at present. It only means the abolition of the present system of waitresses and what paid busboys there would be might be student workers...