Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transition scenes in from of the curtain was a bad mistake. I think it was a section of castle wall the obscured Lear's great line: "O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!" A vast seething backdrop painted in red did extremely well by the supernatural element in "Lear...
Dodds disclosed that he had turned down an offer of $150,000 which was to go toward building the new club on the north side of Prospect Street--Princeton's "club row." Earlier the university president had referred to the additional club as a "positive new element" in the college's social setup...
...Russia and the U.S. began working on the H-bomb simultaneously, Russia would have a lead. It would have a lead because in the kind of war that might wipe out entire cities and whole armies at one surprise stroke, the U.S. would strike only if struck first. The element of surprise would always be Russia's monopoly. The tempting nakedness of America's great cities and the vulnerable concentration of her industrial plants also made the U.S. a more profitable target than Russia...
Atomic experts bombarded uranium with atomic particles from the cyclotron and produced neptunium, a new "synthetic" element with 93 electrons. Next, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg and co-workers discovered plutonium (No. 94), and, four years later, at the University of Chicago, americium (No. 95) and curium (No. 96). Last week tall, gaunt, 37-year-old Chemist Seaborg and his associates were in the news again. By bombarding americium with alpha particles, they had produced another new element, with 97 electrons...
...Energy Commission's restricted list. But once the news of No. 97 was out, the University of California nastily conferred with AEC and issued a guarded statement. After "four years' work in which the necessary background information of both the chemical and nuclear properties of the heavy elements [were] investigated and systematized . . . extremely small amounts of the new element were made on the 60-inch cyclotron of the Crocker Radiation Laboratory . . . Details concerning how the new isotope was made and its properties are not available, but theoretical considerations rule out its use in production of atomic weapons...