Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to be certified by the National Committee. More, he wanted to be put on that body's Executive Committee, where New York's Hilles had sat, though his committee back home had not voted for this. As an acknowledged leader of the young, "liberal" element in the party and as a demonstrably able political practitioner, he felt he deserved the place ahead of Herbert Hoover's candidate, Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt, splendid committeewoman though she is. Unhappily for the party's publicity, Mr. Simpson cried: "The people have left the President, but they will turn...
...nine-tenths bluff (as it often has been in France), he can first outbluff and finally outbargain Jouhaux. So-called "alarming reports" of French police last week "smashing" many "spontaneous" and "premature" so-called "strikes" in Lille (50,000 strikers), Billancourt (30,000), Valenciennes (8,000), etc., had their element of play-acting-but the play was new. It was not according to the "New Deal" script of Léon Blum, under whom as Premier one million workers were on strikes & sit-downs two short years ago (TIME, June 22, 1936). Premier Daladier took most drastic measures for Defense...
...important element in the work of the Council, Sullivan pointed out the cooperation which has always existed between the faculty and the Council committees. He especially praised the work of the Debating Council, the Student Union, and the CRIMSON...
...Refugees from Nazi Germany," which will be laid before the Corporation today, is not recommended alone by its lofty aims. It also has the merit of practicality, showing every indication of being established on a sound financial basis. And finally it has the whole-hearted backing of almost every element in Harvard, whose collective sympathy it represents. For these reasons, the Corporation is strongly urged to approve the Plan...
Professor Fermi found them by bombarding uranium with a stream of neutrons (tiny particles which weigh about the same as a proton or hydrogen nucleus but have no electric charge). His bombarding neutrons slipped into the hearts of the uranium atoms, forming an unstable new element, ckarhcuium-No. 93. Similarly, in 1936, Dr. Fermi created a few atoms of ckaosmium-No. 94. Some of his other discoveries about neutrons: Having no electric charge, neutrons are not affected by the negative electric field outside an atom or by the positive charge on its nucleus. The only thing that stops them...