Word: enrico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Chadwick of England discovered the neutron, a particle which has no electric charge and therefore slips straight through the powerful electric shields outside and inside of heavy atoms. Soon Italy's brilliant Enrico Fermi (who has lived in the U.S. since 1939), was attacking all sorts of heavy atoms, including uranium, with neutrons. The neutron became the trigger of the atomic bomb...
Under the cover name of "The Metallurgical Laboratory," some of the most important discoveries were made at the University of Chicago directed by famed Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. His leading associate: Italian-born Dr. 'Enrico Fermi, whom many consider the world's foremost nuclear physicist. But there were also scores of other laboratories where the work went on: Columbia, University of California, Iowa State, industrial research centers...
Horrible Tortures. The examination of the living witnesses was a rapid affair. First Police Inspector Enrico Morazzini confirmed what he wrote to the court some days ago. Judge Maroni interrupted: "There is no need to read it out. The description of the tortures is too horrible for decent people to hear." Then it was the turn of Cinema Producer Count Luchino, Visconti di Modrone, a witness for the defense...
This week Mrs. Caruso, a handsome, white-haired woman in her early 50s, will publish the story of her three-year marriage to the bombastic Italian opera king (Enrico Caruso, His Life and Death; Simon and Schuster, $2.75). Wisely, she made no changes in the picturesque, Italian-English in which Caruso brought her his daily dramas...
...weeks. Finally Mrs. Caruso said: "I decided to write the book myself. While I wrote I could smell the verbena just as though he were here. . . . Those failures [her two marriages since Caruso's death] were no one's fault. . . . Death had not ended my marriage to Enrico...