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...Heavier drinkers are more often members of college athletic teams, drink during the season more, and celebrate the end of the season with more gusto and more consumption. "Perhaps," Pugh suggests, "the report throws a light on some of the recent records of Harvard athletic teams." Of the 25 athletes in the survey, 12 drank during the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thesis Uncovers Guzzling Habits of College, Finds 13.5 Percent of Students Big Boozers | 12/1/1951 | See Source »

...Sharers of the chemistry prize were the University of California's Edwin M. McMillan and Glenn T. Seaborg. Both were leaders of teams that synthesized the "transuranian elements," i.e., elements heavier than uranium (atomic number 92). First made was neptunium (No. 93), which McMillan named after the planet just outside Uranus. Neptunium turns spontaneously into plutonium (No. 94), used in atom bombs. The other transuranian elements, also produced for the first time at Berkeley: americium (No. 95), curium (No. 96), berkelium (No. 97) and californium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobelmen of 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Sparked by quarterback Bucky O'Connor and ends Lowell Sachnoff and Ken Herlihy, the Bunnies, gained much midfield yardage on passes, but when they were in scoring territory, the heavier Calhoun line took charge. The longest Leverett drive, which reached the Calhoun 10-yard line in the second period, was halted as time ran out in the half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only Eliot, Winthrop Stave Off Elis | 11/24/1951 | See Source »

...midst of a blizzard, trains and trucks rolled up to Chicago's stockyards last week, disgorging huge numbers of hogs and cattle. As the squealing, lowing animals were crowded into the cold and muddy pens, prices tumbled. Sales of steers were heavier than in any comparable week in ten years. Had the big break in meat prices finally come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEAT: The Showdown | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Bulging Feed Lots. Ever since beef controls first went on, meatmen have demanded they be lifted. Most admit that if they are, prices will go up. But after a temporary flurry, they think heavier supplies will bring prices down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEAT: The Showdown | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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