Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Light Shield. Airplanes cannot carry massive concrete shields like those around the piles at Oak Ridge and Hanford. A lighter shield is needed. The most deadly radiations are neutrons and gamma rays...
...experts are not sure what particle (or particles) causes this great commotion. Some think the primary rays are electrons which must be moving (to have so much energy) at almost the speed of light. But Dr. Bruno Rossi of M.I.T. presented a paper at last week's meeting claiming that there are practically no electrons or photons (high energy electromagnetic waves) among the primary radiations. They are observed in the showers along with other particles, but Rossi believes that they are formed when the primary ray (whatever it is) hits the atmosphere...
...lived at I Tatti ever since. When World War II broke out, friends urged him to leave. He refused: "Rather than give up these cypresses and olive trees and this light, I would lay down my life." Ambassador William Phillips then got a promise from Count Ciano that "Berenson would never be disturbed." Finally, however, the onrush of the Nazis forced him out. After the war, two young partisans, sent by the Committee of National Liberation, found him in hiding and escorted him back to his cypresses and olive trees, his several servants, and the remote, unruffled life...
Lehman Bros. and Bear, Stearns & Co. won the bid for Kansas City Power & Light Co.'s $12 million issue of first-mortgage bonds last week. They had planned to re-offer it at 102 (less than half a point profit) but found no buyers. The bankers finally cut the price 48½? (½? below the purchase price), swallowed their pride and a $702.24 loss plus expenses. Wall Street talked darkly about the evils of competitive bidding...
Current Event. In Russellville, Ark., the lights went out at Arkansas Tech at the start of a commencement address by C. Hamilton Moses, president of the Arkansas Power & Light...