Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...removed from Bentinck-Smith's past experience, but Pusey felt he could use the tact and the interest in Harvard which marked the successful Bulletin years. On his side, Bentinck-Smith accepted the offer for two reasons: "First, it will give me a chance to serve Harvard in a larger field. And then, too, my admiration for Mr. Pusey influenced me to accept his unexpected offer...
...similar thing happens at the light end of the series. If light atoms, e.g., hydrogen, are packed together into a larger atom, it weighs less than the pieces that form it. Here again, the loss of weight shows up as energy. A little figuring told the physicists that a given amount of a light element, forced to fuse, would yield more energy than the same amount of uranium. Besides, light elements are plentiful, while uranium is scarce...
...When a sufficient amount (critical mass) of U-235 is assembled, a single, slow-moving neutron can start an atom-splitting chain reaction in it and make the whole chunck explode. Light elements are not so accommodating. Their atoms must be slammed together violently to make them group into larger atoms and yield energy...
Except for such demonstrations as the 1932 Cockcroft-Walton experiment, the only way to get a fusion reaction is to raise the temperature. The hotter a material gets, the faster its atoms move. If it gets hot enough, they may hit one another so hard that they combine into larger atoms, yielding the energy of fusion...
...Congress itself would write," the economists found the Randall Report "badly compromised" by Steelman Clarence Randall's efforts to appease the protectionist wing of his Commission on Foreign Economic Policy. The report failed to make it clear that "American consumers and producers [would] gain from freer trade and larger imports...