Word: faster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common in atomic physics, make better bullets than fast neutrons for creating artificially radioactive substances. Having no electrical resistance to fight against, a slow neutron simply sidles up to an atom and "falls" into the nucleus-much as a slowly rolling golf ball drops into the cup whereas a faster one may roll by. Capture of a neutron makes an overweight, unstable atom which spits out particles or radiation or both. Fermi's slow neutrons have induced this kind of radioactivity in more than 40 elements...
...when it happens and don't start becoming news any sooner than it does happen, and therefore to try to make your subscribers' eyes stick out by telling them that because you appear hereafter on Thursday instead of on Friday they are getting the news one day faster is like telling a boy that he is getting more than 24 hours in the day if he arises at 6 a. m. instead...
...spite of the grave social dilemmas they point to-the threat of fascism, war. increasing nationalism, moral confusion-the contributors to America Now are optimistic about the future. They see science, rapid communication, the "prophylaxis of ideas" working for international good will faster than the forces of reaction can work against it. If, they suggest, reactionaries persist in running counter to the people's deep-seated desire for progress and peace, their newspapers will go unread, their movies will be shunned, their broadcasts unheard, their advertising ignored and, if they resort finally to force, their necks broken. Though pessimists...
...this Nazi threat has its place. So have portions of Africa about which there may soon be attempted trading. *Obviously if Nazis will not trade, if experience shows a valid quid pro quo is impossible in the long run, then the Democracies, now rearming and able to rearm relatively faster than Germany and Italy, will have to fight the Second World War later...
...decline & fall in Sarah's eyes- from the time when there had been "nobody as big, or as funny, or sometimes as frightening," to the tragic day when he cried in her presence. Sarah had not known that men knew how to cry. She learned other things faster-economics by going hungry, the ways of boys from confidences of schoolmates. Before her father's death she learned her biggest lesson: "When you were a little child you thought your parents could do anything and knew everything. It was when you were growing up that you began...