Word: experimentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve years ago, the U.S. launched the most elaborate experiment in veteran legislation in all history. Instead of bonuses, it offered its veterans an education. Last week that experiment passed a milestone, and an era ended as the G.I. bill ran out for the men and women veterans of World...
Fissioning in the Subway. Another key question was whether uranium atoms ever fission spontaneously-an important factor in weighing the feasibility of practical bombmaking. Theorists said that spontaneous fission ought to take place, but excellent experimental men in the U.S. were unable for a considerable time to prove that it did. The first to prove it (in 1940) were two young Russians, Flerov and Petrzhak, who did their work (to protect their experiment from the intrusion of cosmic rays) in the depths of Moscow's ornate subway...
From then on, as scientific experiment became more and more a closely guarded secret the world over, nobody heard much of anything about Peter Kapitsa. But in the years following World War II, when the menace of the hydrogen bomb loomed large and black, the thoughts of many a scientist...
Then came drugs that did the trick in many cases. First were the hexamethonium compounds (TIME, Aug. 4, 1952), which simply lowered blood pressure. About three years ago doctors began to experiment with reserpine. This did double duty for a fair proportion of such patients; it lowered their blood pressure...
Education School teacher trainees and members of the Summer School Conference on Educational TV watched a closed-circuit telecast of a Newton schoolroom session yesterday morning as the Harvard Graduate School of Education went into the second day of an experiment in educational television.