Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the co-chairmen, the greatest disappointment of the generally encouraging evening came at Lowell House and Dudley. Contributions at Lowell, which finished a strong second last year, averaged only $5.20. Dudley House returns netted a total of just $19, due in part to the difficulty in contacting the commuters...
Returns at 1 a.m. indicated donations last night amount to between $3900 and $4000, a considerable drop from Monday's collections...
...Last week another small step was taken. It was not even a difficult one, yet neither was it a totally insignificant one. By agreeing to a conference of experts on the problem of detecting underground explosions the Russians gave definite indication that they do desire a treaty permanently halting nuclear tests...
Although it was the Soviets who yielded last week, the Geneva conference has been notable for the compromises and concessions made on both sides in their efforts to reach agreement...
...discuss the scientific feasibility of detecting nuclear explosions. They agreed that there is little problem in discovering surface tests since successful techniques used in U.S. monitoring of Soviet activities provided much information in this field. Surface explosions produce heat, light, radioactivity and shock waves which, particularly the last two, are identifiable over long distances...