Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mesons disintegrate in a few millionths of a second. They had been observed before only in the debris left by the impact of a cosmic ray. Now, for the first time, they could be bred in the laboratory. What happens to the proton (or neutron) after the meson leaves it? One theory: it turns into no-one-yet-knows-what. Another theory: the X ray "condenses" into matter within the particle, and then bursts out again in the form of a meson...
...editorialized the February number of the Unitarian Christian Register. And many a protesting Protestant agreed. Wincing under the quadruple impact of Going My Way, The Song of Bernadette, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Bells of St. Mary's he wondered why Hollywood should be so long on Catholic heroes, wondered also what might be done about...
...Josef Scharl's simple, powerful Gethsemane. A head-on study of the Agony in the Garden, it had the human impact and the somber, Protestant force (but not the masterful painting) of a Christ by Rem brandt...
They asked little of life but independence, and that had a price. Through the '20s and '30s Newfoundlanders knew hard times. Their underdeveloped, underpopulated (300,000) island has never been self-sufficient. They imported much of what they ate. When world markets dried, and the full impact of depression was felt, Newfoundland went steadily downhill, hurried along by shortsighted leaders who ran her national debt from $43 million to $100 million in twelve years. In 1933 the treasury had $8 million in revenue to meet an expenditure of $11 million ($5 million in interest charges alone). Then there...
...Richmond. A spinster who never went to school, she wrote her first story at seven, her 20th and last novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning In This Our Life, at 68. Between the two she cultivated muscular ethics, a sinewy style, the flaccid enmity of the old South. To the1 impact of her novels, a critic testified: "Southern romance is dead. Ellen Glasgow has murdered...