Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a piece of paper is lighted with a match, the paper particles first heated set others on fire; these in turn ignite others, and so on. The same sort of chain reaction must be started for a successful large-scale atomic explosion. Above, the rare form of uranium, U-235, is shown breaking down into barium and krypton (only one of several possible disintegrations). The "match" is a neutron source at left. (Radium mixed with beryllium is a common source of neutrons...
...Liberty lacks today is package," says Hunter, moaning low over his lack of better paper to match his better contents. Pointing to the pulp layer in the middle of a slick paper sandwich, he sighs: "We have to print novels on toilet paper...
...never quite grew up. At the age of 50, he still liked to play with blocks. He sometimes disguised himself in a long cape and a tousled wig and went wandering through Manhattan's streets - in search of material, he said. He preferred the company of bootblacks and match boys to that of adults. He liked to beat the big drum in the band that was organized at the Newsboys' Lodging House, where he spent most of his leisure hours...
...Match into Holocaust. Production costs are pared by filming time-eating outdoor shots with low-paid doubles and stunt men. With transparencies and miniatures, the film is finished in the studio, using a minimum of a well-paid actor's time. The Bills wangle Army & Navy tie-ins : in one picture they used 250 Army planes, in another, a group of Navy divers. Cracked one Hollywoodite : "They strike a match and make it look like a five-alarm fire...
...modern aviation would be impossible, but as every airman knows, its touchy inflammability makes it more dangerous than dynamite. Last week the Standard Oil Development Co. demonstrated a new high-octane fuel which it hopes will greatly reduce the fire hazard. They tested it by dropping a flaming match into the stuff. The match went...