Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rabi, carrying these studies further, found the molecular beam much more helpful in studying the structure of an atom than an atom-smashing machine, whose use he likens to studying the Taj Mahal by dynamiting it and considering the fragments. By his method, Rabi learned, for example, that the deuteron, the simplest known nucleus, revolves like a football spinning end over...
...infantry is not aggressive and does not attack with anything like enthusiasm unless it is capable of maintaining terrific fire power. Their usual method is to penetrate positions where they do not expect to encounter Japanese forces. They do not specialize in charges...
Since U.S. soldiers direct their fire at sounds when they cannot see a target and are likely to fire their rifles blindly from their trenches, it is comparatively easy to surround their positions, if one acts with coolness and deliberation. In such cases, the best method is to attack with hand grenades and then to switch promptly to hand-to-hand combat. American soldiers are terrified by our night attacks...
Ewing's lenses have caught wrecked ships (he is now working for the Navy), "dust" storms, some strange fish. His method makes it possible to observe certain fish which cannot be caught alive with nets because they live only at ocean-bottom pressures. He also hopes that his camera will clear up an old baffler: why do fish from the presumably dark ocean bottom have well developed eyes, while those at slightly higher levels seem nearly blind? Ewing's guess: there are large amounts of luminescent organisms on the ocean floor...
Purist. In Durham, N.C., one A. E. Lloyd insisted that "stoping" meant an excavation method in mining, refused to pay a fine for parking beside a "No Stoping" sign. The court docilely dropped charges, ordered the misspelling corrected...