Word: directioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Victoria's day her Empire has come on troubled times. The Crown itself has lost its last remaining ounce of direct political power.* But what the Crown has lost in weight, it has gained in glamor. Princess Elizabeth, who will be the next wearer-unless her parents, most improbably, have a son-shows no more sign of greatness than the young Victoria did. She is not required to be great; she is expected to be gracious...
...would be far better (and cheaper) to get electricity direct. How? Piles give their energy in a snarl of assorted forms: zig-zagging neutrons, high-speed beta particles, heat, light, gamma rays. Confined within the pile's thick shield, they all simmer down to heat, the most "degraded" form of energy. It takes the costly boiler-turbine-generator combination to "elevate" the heat into usable electricity...
This detour into pre-atomic technology may not always be necessary. Beta rays (streams of electrons) are nothing but high-voltage, direct current electricity. If a pile could be designed to give chiefly beta rays, it would be comparatively easy to coax them into wires...
Meeting an hour later, the Crimson wrestling squad selected Peter Fuller '46, of Winthrop House and Boston to direct the team next season...
...moral case. While Harvard students and all comers receive the mantle of membership at the door of the organization, an fulfill the other obligations of membership by filing this charter in their wallets, the law of Massachusetts proscribing racial discrimination stands flouted and helpless in the fact of a direct violation of its spirit and intent...