Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Nash admits that his steady stream of conversation during an experiment sometimes interferes with his concentration on details. Chemistry 2 alumni still talk of the day that he forgot to put a sheet of asbestos under a plate of white phosphorus. When the phosphorus ignited, Nash had to dash...
Sir: During the existence of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, only five persons connected with the atomic energy program have suffered radiation burns. In 1948 four men at the Eniwetok weapons tests burned their hands when they moved contaminated material without using safety equipment which was provided . . . On June 2...
... It is a scornful repudiation of the principle instituted by Jefferson in the foundation of our country and of every characteristic which makes American history the distinctive successful "experiment" before the critical eyes of the world which Lincoln stated it was, namely: belief in the basic goodness and self-improvable...
CLAUDE WICKARD resigned as Rural Electrification Administrator. A Hoosier hog farmer who went to Washington in 1933 to help man the old Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Wickard was one of the promoters of the early New Deal's pig-killing experiment, worked closely with Henry Wallace, rose to Secretary of...
Last year the owner decided to give the Nelson gallery the cracked mural. When Roth saw the mysterious trace of blue again, he got permission to try a delicate experiment. He cut a tiny square out of the 800-year-old painting, looked underneath and jumped up with excitement: this...