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Said he: "The principal and perhaps the only solid hope for preventing the use of atomic energy for destruction on a scale that has not yet been disclosed is for peoples everywhere to come to understand . . . this new critter, the atom, and what it holds for evil and for good . . . and to understand thereby the opportunities that lie before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Those of Little Thought | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...only had a Beebe Pellett, I might Hurt the critter," panted Hu Flung, now hommed in the coffin corner, "but I'm not out of the Woods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Harvard on Opp and Opp With Chips on Table"-Husy | 10/25/1941 | See Source »

...Useful Critter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

BEDFORD FORREST AND His CRITTER COMPANY?Andrew Nelson Lytle?Minton, Balch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cavalry, C. S. A.* | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...surprises and showed very clearly that track athletics is a "mighty uncertain critter" to make any prophecies about. Who would have been willing to prognosticate, for example, that Corbin would get first prize in the half mile run out of the clutches of Will Wright himself? Or that Wright of Harvard would have to content himself with second place, owing to an unfortunate misunderstanding about the exact position of the finish line? Or that Stillman would beat Evins in the hammer throwing? Or that Wade of Yale would be better by a place than R. H. Davis of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD 61; YALE 51. | 5/21/1892 | See Source »

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