Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard knew what Winterbauer was up to. At first, the Crimson tried to rush him. The Yale line did not yield, and consequently only once was Winterbauer hit before he could pass. For a while the Crimson covered receivers, halting the Yale drive that intervened between the third and fourth touchdowns. That...
...commonest kind of radioisotope is any element (gold, cobalt, strontium) that has been placed inside a reactor long enough to become radioactive, i.e., to shoot off alpha, beta or gamma rays. Then, when these rays hit another object, their speed or intensity changes; by using Geiger counters and other devices to detect the rays, technicians can learn many filings' about the objects under bombardment. And when isotopes are added to liquids, their flow can easily be followed by Geiger counters...
...last week, Cecil B. DeMille's $13.5 million The Ten Commandments seemed certain of being the top money movie of all time. Already seen by almost 22 million moviegoers, the 3-hr. 39-min. spectacle has grossed more than $29 million in only 917 theaters (a top hit can easily run in 15,000). The big money champion up to now, Gone With the Wind ($33.5 million since 1939), will soon be outdistanced. After some 40 years of moviemaking, DeMille's skilled old hand once again blends, to the public's obvious liking, an unbeatable mixture...
...Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick of capitalism but leery of canned meat. "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach," Crusader Sinclair sadly acknowledged. But The Jungle won him an invitation to Theodore Roosevelt's White House and the attention of the Kimbroughs...
This edition, also a CRIMSON product, had a bedside interview with the victim--"I asked what they wanted, but they didn't say anything. They just kept grinning at me. Then one of them hit me in the side...