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Kenneth Hay Kingdon and H. C. Pollock of the General Electric laboratories had isolated small amounts of U-235. But costly, slow and tedious, the method of isolation employs the mass spectrometer the uranium ore is vaporized in a tiny electric furnace, then electrified, and the isotopes are separated and sorted by weight in a magnetic field. The rate of isolating U-235 is one ten-billionth of a pound per hour. It is generally agreed that at least a pound would be needed for practical power experiments. By this method a pound would take about 11,000 centuries...
Shangri-La. No orchid hunter is Ronald Kaulback, though he once picked flowers in Tibet with famed Botanist Kingdon Ward, collected many rare plants, insects, snakes on his own 18-month scramble to find the source of Tibet's Black River, the Salween. He never found it, but he traveled some 3,000 miles of unexplored shingle on the freezing-cold roof of the world, earned the Murchison Grant of the Royal Geographical Society for his pains. There were plenty of them. Salween is probably the cheerfullest book ever written of discomforts ranging from intense heat among blood-sucking...
...extra's part is that of a gloomy individual who carries a bier. Among the extras are: Lathrop M. Forbush '39, Lester D. Berger 40, Arnold W. Frutkin '40, Alvin W. Shutzer '40, Peter H. Solomon '40, Waldo H. Stewart '40, John A. Waldo '40, Norman W. Getsinger '41, Kingdon W. Swayne '41, Richard M. Wagner '41, and William H. Lowe...
...Kingdon W. Swayne '41, of George School, Pennsylvania; Dwight D. Taylor Jr. '41, of Excelsior, Minnesota; Robert G. Urquhart '40, of Detroit, Michigan; John C. Wahlke '39, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Richard C. Webster Jr. '40, of Baltimore; Richard H. Weller '40, of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania; Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, of Madisonville, Kentucky; Grant W. Wiprud '41 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; William H. Witt '41, of Seattle, Washington; Morton G. Wurtele '40, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky; Joseph A. Wyant '40, of Atlanta, Georgia...
...teams and their managers as announced by Homer D. Peabody, Freshman Class President, are: Wigglesworth and Apley, Charles Clark; Thayer, Mortimer Rayman; Matthews and Grays, Kingdon W. Swayne; Massachusetts, Lionel, and Union, Norman W. Getsinger; Stoughton, Hollis, and Holworthy, Jerry O'Conner; Weld, Straus, and Mower, Lucian Zoll...