Word: irenee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among those who have been bombarding atoms with alpha particles are Mme Curie's daughter, Irene Curie-Joliot, her husband F. Joliot, Dr. Chadwick and Professor Walter Bothe of Giessen, Germany. Professor Bothe, bombarding beryllium, decided he was creating an artificial super-gamma ray. Dr. Chadwick decided that a...
By repeated experiment it is known that any electrically charged form of matter will penetrate paraffin, for example, more easily than lead. Bombarding lithium with alpha particles from polonium, the Curies found they were knocking out a ray that penetrates lead more easily than paraffin. By empirical reasoning, the ray...
¶A famed feature of President Hoover's legend is his fondness for children. Last week, shepherded by the manager of the bus line which brought them from Detroit, Clifford (10), Irene (n) and Bernice Feagan (13) arrived at the White House. Their father, a refrigerator mechanic, was held...
Symphony of Six Million (RKO). The warm, prolix emotion which Fannie Hurst put into her story about a young Jewish doctor on Manhattan's East Side is strongly translated in this picture. Felix (Ricardo Cortez), humbly set up with a backroom for an office, finds few paying patients. He has...
One of the oldest (106) and most famed of U. S. civic celebrations. New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival is for local socialites a formal, exclusive occasion; for merchants and hotelmen, a golden harvest; for visitors and the man-in-the-street one good long party. Last week's...