Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly the woman turned off the gas lights. The darkness was complete except for the faint luminescence of something in a tube which she held in her hand. Few days later Marie Sklodowska Curie and her husband Pierre announced they had discovered a radioactive element which they called radium...
Last week a frail and broken woman lay in a remote sanatorium in the French Alps under the shadow of Mt. Blanc. A racking cough had settled in her chest. Pernicious anemia was in her blood. Perhaps long exposure to the deadly element she and her husband had discovered was taking its toll. But Marie Curie's mind was clear and she was ready to die. She had come far since her birth in Poland 66 years ago. In Warsaw her father had been a physics professor, her mother principal of a girls' school. Their daughter Marie...
Since the German people heard only the Hitler side of events last week, their reaction was to decide that the Chancellor had at last proved himself a Strong Man, purged his Party of its worst element and emerged with enhanced prestige. In Paris the indiscreet entourage of tabasco-tongued Foreign Minister Louis Barthou dropped broad hints that further trouble and the fall of Chancellor Hitler are expected and that the foreign policy of France has been based on these expectations for months...
...Cossack trooper, His Majesty Riza Shah Pahlevi, King of Kings, showed in converse with the Turkish Dictator his customary habit of arriving swiftly at obstinate conclusions. Several times Dictator seemed vexed by Dictator, but only in political converse. When the talk shifted to soldiering both were in their element. With a strutting pageant of Turkish soldiery and Air Force maneuvers, Host Kemal so diverted Guest Pahlevi that the King of Kings prolonged his official visit...
...uranium which weighed 92 atomic units. For 13½ min., while it sputtered electrons, the uranium weighed 93 units. According to the Mendeleyeff Table it had no scientific business weighing more than uranium. During that period, reasoned Professor Fermi, the substance must have been not uranium, but hypothetical Element...