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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Poisoners Beware | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Jordan Is Likely Successor With Boston Probable Coach | 2/9/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Jordan Is Likely Successor With Boston Probable Coach | 2/9/1951 | See Source »

John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek, discussed mainly the conflict of war and peace as it was to be found in the Iliad. Peace he called "certain things one wishes to held on to out of the flux of change," while war was that which wipes away those things most quickly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish, Levin Say Modern War Brings No Great Novels | 12/12/1950 | See Source »

...engineering and applied science departments have been in a state of flux since their inception, with Vanevar Bush heading an advisory committee for the determination of proper distribution of the McKay money. Facilities for E.S.A.P. and some mechanical engineering equipment have been housed in temporary structures in back of the biology laboratories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Applied Sciences Lab Will Be Built on Oxford St. | 11/7/1950 | See Source »

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