Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where the controversy started, and we went to his house. He gave me a rough description of the town councilors, and we laboriously went through the minutes. It was dawn when we finally parted to our respective beds. After a couple of hours' sleep I went straight to Mass to have a look at the priest in the case...
Essentially, the tame bomb is a "pile" like the original uranium pile at the University of Chicago. But uranium needs slow-moving neutrons to make its atoms split. Thus, a uranium pile is made up of small rods of uranium embedded in a large mass of graphite. Plutonium is different: its atoms can be split by fast neutrons. So a pile made of plutonium needs no graphite or other "moderator." The "Nagasaki model" atom bomb is a plutonium pile that reacts so quickly that it blows itself (and the neighborhood) to bits in millionths of a second...
...farm boy in Harvard, Mass., Tupper found that he could make more money by buying and selling other people's vegetables than by raising his own. He developed his trading instinct into a small mail-order business featuring combination sales of toothbrushes, combs, etc., made enough to start manufacturing...
...windowed brick factory in Farnumsville, Mass., orders for Tupperware were pouring in-from the American Thermos Bottle Co. for 7,000,000 nesting cups; from Canada Dry Ginger Ale for 50,000 bowls to sell with beverages; from Tek Corp. for 50,000 tumblers to sell with toothbrushes; from Camel for 300,000 cigaret cases. To top it off, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art would include two of Tupper's bowls in a forthcoming show of useful objects...
...Biographer Bell: "We may suspect that his life at Madrid at this time was not unlike that of the soldier described in El Suez de los Di-vorcios [The Judge of the Divorce Court, a tale by Cervantes]. According to his satirical wife, this soldier earns nothing, goes to Mass, stands gossiping at the Guadalajara Gate, comes home to dinner at two, spends the afternoon and evening gambling, and returns at midnight, when he has supper, if there is any, makes the sign of the Cross, yawns, and goes to bed, where he tosses composing a sonnet...