Word: fluxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow. She was a Norse girl, a beauty with "great, sea-grey eyes" and hair "unbelievably golden"; her name was Swan Ygern. Swan healed the Lord Cinqmort of a bloody flux, and so becharmed his wicked soul that he even left off his wenching to eat her beetle puddings under the Weird Oak Tree. She gave her mistress' daughter the dread effigy of St. Uncumber-to whom unwilling wives prayed that he uncumber them of their mates-and when the poor husband failed...
When the boron had soaked through the woman's system, including the brain tumor that was killing her, the doctors placed her head near Brookhaven's high-flux pile. While the doctors watched from a platform, the pile operator threw the controls and a stream of neutrons from the pile shot through her skull, aimed at the tumor site. For 17 minutes the boron in the tumor was turned, atom by atom, into a source of instantaneous alpha radiation...
...fellow graduate of the Val de Grâce military hospital. Together they worked out an answer. They brought the hair from a known arsenic victim to "Zoé," the atomic pile at Châtillon. For eight days they bombarded the hair in the pile's neutron flux. Then, when the elements it contained were thoroughly radioactive, they shielded the hair with lead, exposed it, one millimeter at a time, to a Geiger counter. The rate of growth of human hair is about one-half inch a month, so when the scientists came to a place that emitted...
Henry Lamars position is also in flux. It is well known that men were interviewed for the freshman coaching job during the recent coaches conference. Many letters of inquiry about the job have appeared recently in the university mails. Jordan was offered the opportunity of setting Lamar loose last spring, but withheld action. It appears that he has now changed his mind...
Henry Lamar's position is also in flux. athletics and Bingham is not known. Where Bingham's committee is supposedly advisory, the director of athletics is responsible for all intercollegiate sports, for intramural sports, and for the freshman physical training program...