Word: gammas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the radio began to blare with the pre-arranged Hoover demonstration, the President went outside the White House to be photographed with visiting delegates of the National Association of American Business Clubs, the Baraca Philathea Union and the Eta Upsilon Gamma Sorority. He was eating his luncheon when the balloting started. Back at the radio his only surprise was that other candidates had managed to get 23½ votes between them. To the convention he dispatched a message carefully prepared in advance...
...beryllium. Two protons of an alpha particle seemed to cling to the nucleus of a beryllium atom (thereby theoretically transmuting that atom of beryllium into an atom of carbon). The particle's other two protons and the two electrons seemed changed into what Professor Bothe considered an artificial gamma ray, which like a light ray is an electromagnetic phenomenon...
...three young men projected radium's beta (high speed electrons) and gamma (penetrating X-rays) rays out of that mica window. Left for duplication were radium's alpha particles, the nucleus of helium...
...Central London Hatchery & Conditioning Centre fertilized human eggs were bokanovskified to produce thousands of identical twins. These embryos were cultured in bottles, immunized and conditioned, decanted after nine months as lusty infants to be further conditioned by hypnopaedia (sleep teaching) into useful, satisfied citizens of Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon class. The Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons did all the work; the Alphas had all the fun. They travelled in helicopters, went to the "feelies," danced to the music of sexophones. In the Year of Our Ford 632 every woman wore a Malthusian belt, blushed with...
...Dodge is well known for his work on the fungus diseases of man, and has delivered the first course in this field while at Harvard. He has held positions of chairman and secretary of the Botanical Society of America, and has also served as national secretary for Gamma Alpha, a scientific honor fraternity. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi fraternities...