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...photomultiplier tubes are cooled by water flowing between them, and when the apparatus was at Los Alamos, goldfish were thriving in the water. Said Dr. Reines: "There is little interaction between neutrinos and goldfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Real Neutrino | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...naturally wonders just how long the boom is going to last. Is theatre activity at Harvard just beginning a long and significant golden age, or have students merely spouted Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams this year out of the same faddish enthusiasm that once led them to swallow goldfish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apples | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Wittily, the publishers have decorated the book jacket of this literary curiosity with the novelist's figure in its more recent frame-sitting before his goldfish pond at Chartwell, with his back firmly turned. The frontispiece shows the face of a younger, less imposing man, who had just become a Member of Parliament in the year (1900) in which his first and only novel, a highly romantic work of historical fiction, was first issued in book form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Man's Plaything | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24--Senate leaders announced plans today to reform the election laws in advance of the presidential and congressional campaigns this year. Majority Leader Johnson (D-Tex.) said one aim of the legislation is to put political contributions "in a goldfish bowl," for all the voters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adenauer Ousts 37 FDP Members From Bonn Coalition Government; Senators Propose Election Reform | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

...Astronomer Woolley had also given courage to other conservatives. Said the Spectator's Columnist "Pharos": "I wish the Astronomer Royal had gone a little further and told them to take up model yachting instead. That is a much prettier pastime than dreaming about going to Mars with a goldfish bowl over one's head and a superconcentrated food lozenge under the tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Utter Bilge? | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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