Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foolproof pictures of surgical operations. The inventors have great hopes for it. At present the gadget is a typical military job: too expensive and too heavy. The "power-pack" which provides the current weighs 27 Ibs. But by spring, it may be streamlined for the civilian market into a lighter, more practical model...
Mixed Drink. In Springfield, Ohio, hospital attendants reported Willie Mar tin's condition as "good" after he had been treated for absorption of a home made punch made of iodine, turpentine, kerosene, rat poison, lighter fluid, shoe polish, and wine...
...news of the General in lighter vein, see PEOPLE...
Aimed, as never before in the history of Harvard's wartime twice-weekly, to build up a staff capable of publishing the CRIMSON, competitions this fall will have higher standards than in the past, though they still will impose far lighter burden on candidates than did proverbially rugged CRIMSON comps...
Processes & Places. There were many possible ways of separating U-235 from natural uranium. Two processes at least were found to work well. In the first (mass spectrograph), uranium particles were electrically charged, fired through a huge electromagnet, sent into a curving course. The lighter U-235 swung more widely on the curve. Traps were set at the end of the turn, and U-235 was caught there, while U-238 was discarded...