Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...
...when Dr. Hahn examined his end-products and sat down with pencil and paper to figure out what had happened, he concluded that he had created the most violent atomic explosion ever effected by human agency. Moreover, he had not intended to do it. It was a great accident...
...Group's work have appeared in the Catholic Times in England, the Catholic World in the U. S. L'Osser- vatore Romano, semi-official newsorgan of the Holy See, once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic, and being changed has made me a much better Roman Catholic." Last week, however, a potent Catholic prelate, Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England, wrote his clergy informing them that...
...administering arsenic and croton oil to old men was by no means the defendant's only foible. To establish the sincerity of her denial of this vice, defense attorneys shrewdly made a point of admitting their client's guilt of thefts, adultery and forgery. Motive for Mrs. Hahn's dealings with her elderly Cincinnati compatriots was established as mere robbery. Motive for the robberies was even more innocent - her addiction to gambling, preferably on horseraces. Of the $50,000 acquired from her old friends in the last eight years, Mrs. Hahn last week had barely enough left...
...trial ended, one of Mrs. Hahn's attorneys was absent. Sniffled his partner, Hiram Bolsinger, who was present at the verdict despite a bad cold: "Joe . . . didn't think he could stand the finish." When Lawyer Bolsinger, 58-year-old German-American, promised to appeal the verdict, reporters asked him who would pay the will." costs. Answered Lawyer Bolsinger : "We will...