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Inclosed in graphite blocks inside the pile, aluminum cans of various chemicals were being exposed to neutrons, which transmuted some of their atoms into radioactive isotopes. To extract such a can, the pile must be shut down by remote control lest a beam of neutrons follow through the aperture and wipe out the operators...
...selected by the House meetings this week to draw up a constitution that will embody enough popular control to bring the Student Council out of the 19th century. And the first essential of this control lies in ratification of the constitution by the entire student body, lest future Student Councils find themselves in the unenviable position of Harvard's 1946 rump parliament...
...question of who wins-the Kuomintang or the Communists. It is a question of the Chinese people. . . . The time of the Kuomintang tutelage is over. . . . A coalition government must be set up immediately. . . . The first flame of world conflagration is burning today in our land. It must be quenched lest it destroy the world...
...failed. But lest he leave the state fishless, Gov. Edward J. Thye (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) planted a pike in a bathtub on the State House steps...
...this ad in the Tulsa Tribune last week a merchant angrily said his say against the flood of rising food prices in the U.S. While Congress still wrangled over OPA (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), most manufacturers held the line on prices, worried lest a sudden boost bring back OPA with a rush. But food was something else again. The Bureau of Labor Statistics gravely reported that its food index had jumped 16.1 points last week alone. And with commodity prices rising all along the line, chances were that food would continue to rise...