Word: irenee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In 1934 Jean-Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie succeeded in making boron, magnesium and aluminum artificially radioactive. The atoms of these normally stable substances continued to shoot out particles for some minutes after the preliminary bombardment stopped. Artificial radioactivity is the key mechanism of the atomic bomb.
A string of washing hung on the porch of the Smalls' shingled cottage. Small's frail mother came out as the coupe drew up in the front yard. With her was Small's sister, Irene. "Oh, you're back," said Small's mother. He grinned...
But first Phil had to see Irene's three-weeks-old baby. He bent over the baby's crib and chuckled approvingly. "Damned if you ain't a bustin' rig," he said. "You're a bustin' rig."
Irene Dunne, who wanted to teach music before she became a cinecomedienne, was made an honorary Doctor of Music by the Chicago Musical College.
The pleasant if not terribly exciting idea is to bring hypercorporeal Jack Oakie, an oldtime music-hall magician, back to earth as a ghost to: 1) help his daughter (Peggy Ryan) put her vaudevillian blood into circulation; 2) scare a housemaid (Irene Ryan) by walking invisibly behind her on squeaky...