Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then on the broad pavement of Cadillac Square, hedged round with modern office buildings and old fashioned three-and-four-story shops, a human mass began to accumulate. It grew slowly at first, but soon swelled bigger than the normal rush hour crowd, bigger than an election crowd, big as a world series crowd. When it was full-grown, newshawks, fond of round numbers, called it 100,000. It was 60,000 at the least. There were some women, a few children, but for the most part only men, able-bodied men in their working years-more than one might...
...short years ago mathematical builders of the universe got along with two fundamental particles, the proton and the electron. The proton was the nucleus of the simplest atom, hydrogen. It had a charge of positive electricity and its mass was .0000000000000000000000166 gram. The electron, which in the hydrogen atom throbbed alone around the nuclear proton, had a negative charge matching the proton's positive charge and its mass was 1,847 times less than that of the other particle. The more complex atoms of other elements were constructed from various combinations of electrons and protons...
Then, in quick succession, the neutron was discovered by Chadwick in England and the positron by Anderson in California. The neutron was about as heavy as the proton but had no electric charge. The positron had the same mass as the electron but an opposite charge. Physicists then saw that if they could add to their collection a particle heavy like the proton but negatively charged, and a particle light like the electron but not charged at all like the neutron, they would have a neat array of pairs and triplets, as follows...
...MASS CHARGE Plus Minus No Charge Heavy Proton (Negative Neutron proton?) Light Positron Electron (Neutrino...
...wooden partitions on the basilica's outside balcony to cut off drafts. Within St. Peter's on Easter Sunday morning 50,000 faithful cried "Viva il Papa" when the Holy Fatrrer was borne in on his portable throne, walked a few steps to the altar throne. .During Mass, celebrated by Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, the Pope knelt unassisted during the Consecration and Elevation of the Host. To the faithful who had not seen him. since the beginning of his illness last December, he looked thin, drawn, old. He blew his nose frequently, once shot a reassuring...