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Boston College's seismograph at Weston reported a "fairly strong" earthquake at 9:34 p.m., lasting seven minutes, and centered 155 miles north of Boston. It is not yet known why the Harvard and Weston reports differ on the duration, location, and degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maine Quake Shows Future Trends -- Leet | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

Natural uranium contains two principal "isotopes" (U-235 and nonexplosive U-238) which differ only in atomic weight. Since the isotopes are identical chemically, they cannot be separated by chemical means. They must be separated by some process taking advantage of their slightly different atomic weights. The job is extremely difficult and laborious, but the U.S. developed two processes (gaseous diffusion and electromagnetic separation) that worked efficiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Striking Twelve | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...want to stay as we are), suspected that its social life, at least, would not long bleiwe as it was. For Mrs. Perle Mesta, famed Washington hostess and new U.S. minister to the Grand-Duchy, arrived with plump aplomb, and her ideas of a good party were known to differ from those held in Luxembourg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUXEMBOURG: Small Package | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Does Russian football* differ from that played in other countries? Said the newspaper Soviet Sport last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hmmm | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...teaching or learning the difficult business of educated writing, especially when it is fair to presume that those required to take a non-credit course would be the least competent students? Again, in what ways do the editors of the CRIMSON suppose that "a greatly expanded English C" would differ from the general aims and methods of English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English A Chairman Questions Editorial | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

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