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...Kenneth Hay Kingdon and H. C. Pollock of the General Electric laboratories had isolated small amounts of U-235. But costly, slow and tedious, the method of isolation employs the mass spectrometer the uranium ore is vaporized in a tiny electric furnace, then electrified, and the isotopes are separated and sorted by weight in a magnetic field. The rate of isolating U-235 is one ten-billionth of a pound per hour. It is generally agreed that at least a pound would be needed for practical power experiments. By this method a pound would take about 11,000 centuries...
...completely destroyed Nankai University in Tientsin; not a book or piece of equipment was saved. Japanese soldiers looted National Peking University, sold its furniture for cigaret money. At Tsing Hua University, in Peking, Japanese smashed laboratories to bits, converted the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Gymnasium into a stable, the John Hay Memorial Library into a hospital...
Many are the newly-registered racing silks, notably those of New York Racing Commissioner John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who started his stable of jumpers last year; Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, enter prising young president of Belmont; and Hollywood's Cinemagnate Louis...
Gary Grant has made better pictures than My Favorite-Wife. He has seldom collected a better fee-$100,000. For a boy who was born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England and ran away at twelve to join a tumbling act, this is not hay...
...Moses, it appears, was a thoroughly incompetent historian, his imperialist strategy "the rationalized war passion of a frustrated swivel-chair officer who had no stomach for the hard work of navigation and fighting." As for Roosevelt I, whose election was a "tragedy of politics," and Secretary of State John Hay, who "as Lincoln's secretary had become a treasure of the Republican tradition," they and their friends "built up in the State Department a bureaucracy and a tradition absolutely opposed to historic continen-talism...