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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summer competition among the intramural sporting set will heighten in intensity this afternoon at Soldiers Field when the Lowell House We-Can-Take-It If-You-Can softball outfit battles with Kirkland's famous Diamond Devils...
Coincident with the fourth atomic bomb blast on this planet, Cambridge was rocked by a major quake of its own. Late Sunday evening, Mike's Club announced the famous 15 cent frappe would cost 20 cents. For 24 critical hours, while public opinion massed solidly behind the frappe, this institution, which cost your fathers 15 cents, your grandfathers 15 Confederate you, and your great-grandfathers 15 wisps of golden grain, seemed destined for history. On Monday afternoon the bells tolled. The frappe had returned to 15 cents...
When conflicting facts were discovered by increasingly sensitive instruments, physicists tended to ignore them, or to explain them away by highly artificial creations. Most famous of these was the ether-a tenuous material supposed to fill all space. Ether was necessary (in Newtonian physics) for carrying light waves...
This was a revolutionary concept. If energy can turn into mass by speeding up a moving body, then mass, perhaps, can turn into energy. "Certainly," said Einstein. "Mass, including the mass of all matter, is merely another form of energy." In his famous equation, he gave their equivalent values: E = mc2.*This meant that every pound of any kind of matter contained as much energy as is given off by the explosion of 14 million tons of TNT. It took the world 40 years (until Hiroshima) to appreciate this shocker...
...Gallows in the Rain. Gayest feather in any Jesuit hat was "Campion's Brag." This document, written for use after his almost certain arrest, circulated beforehand and made him famous. In it he asked for three audiences: with the Privy Council, the Masters of the Universities, and the lawyers of the realm, to prove the truth of his faith...