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...Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, will take off from Kwajalein, 250 miles from Bikini. As it makes three trial runs over the orange-colored U.S.S. Nevada, takes readings of wind drift and adjusts the bomb sights, a loudspeaker will alert the whole area. Ten or more miles from the target, the operational ships will keep up steam in case the wind shifts. Aboard, some 40,000 men will lie down on the decks with their feet toward the blast and their eyes covered against blinding...
...came that dreadful day when the ether was done to death. Two U.S. physicists, Albert A. Michelson and E. W. Morley, measured the speed of light simultaneously in two directions at right angles to one another. The speeds were expected to differ slightly because of "ether drift" past the earth. They turned out to be exactly the same, proving conclusively that ether did not exist...
Harry Truman could not stand much more of the kind of humiliation he had suffered at the hands of Lewis and the brotherhoods' Alexander Whitney and Alvanley Johnston. The nation's economy could not stand many more such paralyzing strikes. Harry Truman and Congress had let things drift so far that there was nothing to do but drop a legislative atomic bomb...
...about this point, Claudette and her two Marine friends drift into an oldtime, lickety-split movie chase. The untiring, juvenile monkeyshines of the three unmistakably mature principals keep reminding you that their combined ages must total something over a century...
...place to look at-four whitewashed rooms in what had been an old inn. The original staff consisted merely of a gatekeeper, a janitor and the doctor. They hung out a black-and-gold lacquered sign reading Yali I Yuan (Yale Court of Medicine), and patients began to drift in. Yali I Yuan was the first Yale-in-China medical unit, forerunner of Hsiang Ya ("Hsiang" for Hunan, "Ya" for Yale) Hospital and Medical School...