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When cotton, contaminated with natural radioactivity, is tested over a series of days, its activity diminishes according to a definite rule that depends on the "decay rate" of the elements involved. The curve of decay, plotted on a chart, normally consists of portions of two straight lines. On nine occasions in 1951 and early 1952, Holter & Glasscock collected samples that gave far from normal curves. Study showed that they were the decay curves of very complex mixtures of radioactive substances. The fission products remaining after an atomic explosion fit this description exactly...
...East ... We Germans have nothing, really nothing, to protect our country. All this will be changed quickly and fundamentally after the ratification of the treaties. We will be secure and included in the greatest defense organization which mankind has created. [We can help] save Europe from threatening ruin and decay...
...House. For, far more important than any one House is the House System, which allows students in the College all the virtues and none of the vices of fraternities. Unless each House can remain representative, socially, intellectually, and athletically, the House System is headed for decay...
...recent weeks, our relations with Asia's most important political democracy have sagged badly. Worried reports from American correspondents, and the recognition of the Communists as one of India's four largest parties have mirrored the decay of what had seemed, for the last year at least, to be a budding partnership...
...London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Westminster Abbey, built in 1245, is "falling into decay." He asked that English-speaking people throughout the world join in a donation drive to raise $2,800,000 to repair and save "this historic edifice which links the past with the present and gives us confidence in the future...