Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese would now find themselves deceived. Russia, using Communism-"the most subtle instrument of Soviet foreign policy . . . ever devised"-is the new imperialist in Asia. Already Soviet Russia was proving the point in China by absorbing the northern "provinces" of Outer Mongolia, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Sinkiang. "I should like to suggest," said Acheson, "that this fact ... is the single most significant, most important fact in the relation of any foreign power with Asia...
...matter is equivalent to energy. Out of it grew Niels Bohr's description of the atom as a sort of sun surrounded by electron planets which jump from orbit to orbit emitting quanta of light. Out of it developed the quantum theory, to laymen more arcane than the inner reaches of medieval theology; the quantum theory reduces solid matter to "waves of probability." Out of it blossomed the atomic bomb. No more appropriate discovery than Planck's could have opened the 20th Century...