Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barytron was discovered as a product of cosmic-ray activity in the upper atmosphere. Several investigators, however, have suggested that the powerful forces which bind the nucleus of an atom together may be caused by a sort of "bubbling" within the nucleus-a continuous creation, exchange and reabsorption of heavy particles. Last week Dr. Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, a brilliant analyst of atomic behavior, showed how barytrons could perform this nuclear binding function if they exist in all three electrical states - positively charged, negatively charged, neutral...
Blooming by day in the Radcliffe, Yard, but modestly retiring into a cellar at five o'clock every day, a four-foot tulip has been amazing passersby. This horticultural marvel, is, however, only a department store creation, built up from wire and paper...
...Names. "There is placed on all of us the duty of self-restraint. . . . That is the discipline of a democracy. Every patriotic citizen must say to himself or herself that immoderate statement, appeals to prejudice, the creation of unkindness, are offenses . . . against the whole population of the United States...
...expensive railroad toy was paid for by a heavy tax on tea, favorite Iranian beverage. When this tax failed to produce sufficient money, large portions of Iran's silver reserve were sold. The Iranian rial lost more than half its value (worth about 6½? today), necessitating creation of Government monopolies for imports and exports, prohibition of entry or departure of Iran's paper or silver money. Food prices doubled, taxes trebled. To meet clearing agreement promises, large stores of grain, rice, dried fruits, some needed for home consumption, were exported. In one area His Imperial Majesty decreed...
Long-range Proposals: 1) Creation of a three-man Federal Transportation Authority to plan and promote operating economies and speed consolidations, unification of terminal facilities, car and revenue pooling, etc.; 2) methods of correcting railroad financing abuses to be left to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, which is now investigating them; 3) consideration of the desirability of placing all forms of transport under "equal and impartial regulation of a single agency of Government...