Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inclination to work are termed grinds; those who refuse to study are kept on the roster long after they should have graduated and are finally awarded diplomas by desperate authorities. Private schools and colleges are able to hold the axe of dismissal over the heads of such an element and can extract at least a minimum of effort. But public school officials, hedged about by political exigencies, have been unable to deal with the situation in this manner...
...somewhat low-spirited as to the outcome this afternoon, but in league B they feel that the chances are about even. The general opinion seems to be that Lowell possesses many men of mediocre calibre and no outstanding stars, while Dunster has a few stars and no large supporting element of steady players...
...following the clues of radio-activity that Drs. Pauli and Chadwick separately reached their conclusions. Recently Professor Walther Bothe of Giessen, Germany, bombarded the element beryllium with alpha particles. Something happened to the alpha particles. The particles contained four units of positive electricity (protons) and two of negative electricity (electrons) when they crashed into the beryllium. Two protons of an alpha particle seemed to cling to the nucleus of a beryllium atom (thereby theoretically transmuting that atom of beryllium into an atom of carbon). The particle's other two protons and the two electrons seemed changed into what Professor...
Secretary Hurley: I mean it hasn't one element of courage. It's neither fish nor fowl...
...medium isotopes not so far, the heavy "grapefruit" isotopes, a still shorter distance. By measuring the distances between them on the plate Dr. Bainbridge could calculate the relative weights of Ne20, Ne21, and Ne22. He thinks he can do the same for many another isotope of many another element, including the isotope of hydrogen, found last December (TIME, Dec. 21). By weighing the hydrogen isotope he thinks he may be able to throw some light on what happens to .0308 of hydrogen's atomic weight (1.0077) when four atoms of it combine to form one atom of helium (atomic weight...