Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careless atomic aggressor, Professor Teller admits, might outsmart himself by poisoning the atmosphere too strongly: the radioactive wind might sweep around the world and irradiate his own nation. But even this obstacle is not insuperable: "Different radioactive products have different rates of decay. The attacker is therefore in a position to choose the radioactive products best suited to his attack. With the proper choice, he could ensure that his victim would be seriously damaged by them, and that they would have decayed by the time they reached his own country...
...half the face of the globe as tourist and merchant seaman. The setting of Under the Volcano is chiefly a run-down villa in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (presumably modeled on the popular Anglo-American "colony" of Cuernavaca, where Author Lowry once lived). In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just as he is staggering out of a bar, still wearing last night's tuxedo-descends his divorced American wife Yvonne, in a last desperate...
Immediately prior to his trip to Princeton, he was attempting to procure dental units to send to Europe in an effort to prevent teeth decay for part of the pop ulation...
Wolfe wrote the play while he was doing graduate work here in Professor George Pierce Baker's "Forty-seven Workshop," and before he achieved fame as a novelist. The play presents the rise and decay of a Southern family during the Civil War period. It is an eloquent plea for the cause of the ex-soldier of that...
...Tennessee will illustrate to New England, by its hell-for-leather manner of flay, the dry rot and decay which have overthrown the Harvard and Dartmouths and Browns here in a corner of the country where college football players are strict amateurs and play like strict amateurs." November...