Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This "chain reaction," which the Manhattan District now had to develop, did not happen naturally, chiefly because only one part in 140 of ordinary uranium is U-235. Most of the rest is another isotope, U-238-which, instead of splitting like U-235, absorbs the newborn neutrons with the result that the atomic flame goes out like a match in wet excelsior...
Physicians wondered what would happen. Did people generally know what the wonder drug is good for? Only years of hard work in laboratories and clinics will finally determine what sulfa and penicillin will and will not do. But doctors are now reasonably certain that...
...Chicago Daily News's ace of whimsy, round and jovial Bob (Robert J.) Casey, is no man to sit around waiting for strange and wonderful things to happen. Once, when he heard that a couple of scientists were to climb to a Grand Canyon plateau never before trod by man, he flew over it dropping old whiskey bottles and Ford parts for the amazed scientists to find. More recently, as a roving war correspondent, he has had no trouble finding stories worth reporting...
...that Curran and the union did not want to take cutbacks from wartime pay and what goes with it. They hoped that the Labor Board would somehow see it their way. Across the land employers, war-plant workers, fixed-income folk looked on, some holding their breaths. Whatever happened to N.M.U. might happen to a lot of other people one of these days...
Vigeland's most enigmatic achievement for Frogner Park is a powerfully built man juggling three bronze babies on his arms, booting a fourth into the air with his right foot (see cut). The old sculptor was once asked to explain this caprice. His answer: "In dreams anything can happen...