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...high old time, knocking over sundry articles and tearing open a pillow case. When Lessen returned, around 10 p.m. Sunday, the melange had messed things up considerably and, to add to Lessen's troubles, the culprits who broke into his room in the first place had blown the light fuse...
...remarkably pretty, by movie standards, nor a remarkably good singer or dancer, has a vividly unique personality in a town that tends to reduce beauty and talent to mass-produced patterns. Watching her in action has some of the fascination of waiting for a wildly sputtering fuse to touch off an alarmingly large firecracker...
...Japan, across the world, people were no less grateful for spring, no less confused and bewildered than the Europeans whose bewildering civilization the Japanese were trying to fuse with their own. Last Saturday the sun came out between showers, and Japanese hurried purposefully about their beloved hanami, the flower-viewing...
Randall applied a match to part of the powder he found. The powder did not flare, so he said he thought it could be dynamite. Though still not sure what detonated the bomb, police believed the condition of the sill would indicate a fuse rather than a percussion...
...Atomic Scientists, for once feeling no such fears, carries an article which describes in detail and with figures the basic principles of the hydrogen bomb. It tells how the speeding fission fragments of exploding uranium will impart high velocity to light atoms around them, causing them to "fuse," and release enormous amounts of energy...