Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prophesies the rise of a third major party between 1936 and 1940 which will be chiefly Farmer-Labor in composition with some white collar element. The Socialists will unite with them, he says if they are permitted educational freedom to spread their doctrine. A likely basis for the new party's platform will be "production for use, not profit...
...professor who takes part in labor or political quarrels may find himself "no longer of use to his university" because "the element of responsibility" which "here comes in, overlies his rights to free action as an individual citizen," according to an ominous opinion recently expressed by "The Yale Alumni Weekly...
...Sumner's clientele is rather unique, in that it is composed of three distinct groups "the so-called common people, the professors and the Brattle Street element, and the undergraduates, not to mention the youthful audience at Saturday morning's Mickey Mouse Matinees...
...young daughter and her brilliant young son-in-law were showing themselves to be able and devoted scientists. In the Curie Laboratory of Paris' Institut du Radium Irène Curie-Joliot and Jean Frederic Joliot were shooting alpha particles (nuclei of helium atoms) at the lightweight element beryllium. Strange rays hopped out of the beryllium. Fed into paraffin, the rays knocked out protons (hydrogen nuclei) at dizzy speeds of one-tenth the velocity of light. What were the strange rays...
...Paris last year the Curie-Joliots were firing alpha particles at another light element-boron. Neutrons leaped out. But after the bombardment stopped, the boron continued to emit positive electrons as though the attack had stirred it into a sort of radioactivity. This unlooked-for discovery made necessary a new phrase: artificial radioactivity (TIME...