Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three. But no active head of State,* and no No. 1 official associates of any head of State chose to speak out last week against "these individuals" who shocked an almost shockproof world with a display of deliberate and unprovoked mass cruelty...
...atoms of ckaosmium-No. 94. Some of his other discoveries about neutrons: Having no electric charge, neutrons are not affected by the negative electric field outside an atom or by the positive charge on its nucleus. The only thing that stops them, or slows them down, is the mass of the nucleus itself. Hydrogen atoms are almost all nucleus, and so substances rich in hydrogen-such as paraffin and water-are effective neutron brakes. In 1935 Fermi wrote the equation for the slowing down of neutrons by hydrogen...
...McLean Hospital in Waverly. Mass., after other methods had failed, two young men who studied Science and Sanity were cured in four months of chronic alcoholism...
...Mass unbalance, affecting in at least one case a whole large nation," says he, "mass hysterias, panics, fears and what not, are becoming increasingly a greater neuro-semantic menace than any plague has been." Whether General Semantics will become a cult such as technocracy, or will rank in historic importance with the work of Aristotle and Einstein, as not a few scientists believe, it is spreading rapidly in the U. S. Already 3,000 copies of Science and Sanity, an extraordinarily difficult book of 781 pages, have been sold...
...Montclair, N. J. would start in January, that Paramount had taken on the job of making cinema shorts, other films to be televised on the DuMont shows. But DuMont receiving sets are already being offered for sale in Manhattan stores for $395 ($150 to $250 is the reported mass production price). For demonstration they receive RCA's experimental transmissions from the Empire State Building...