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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One quarter of the College concentrates in the Natural Sciences; 42 percent of the permanent Faculty teaches in the Natural Sciences.

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Faculty Allocation System Ignores Popularity Trends, Favors Consistency, Long-Range Plan | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

The supreme purpose of sports is enjoyment; all others are subordinate to it. There are two ways to enjoy sports: by watching and by playing. To satisfy the watcher, the spectator, the ballplayer is generally called an athlete. In professional sports the avowed purpose is to please the spectator, not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More On Athletics | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

A natural competitor, Greasy has taken a crack at big-league baseball (as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds), coached college football from Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eagles at Work | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

When natural uranium is put in a chain-reacting pile, its U-235 atoms start splitting and yielding energy, "fission products" and free neutrons. Some of the neutrons are needed to split more U-235 atoms and keep the reaction going. Others are absorbed by impurities or escape from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Breeding Atoms | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The AEC's new breeders, or converters, will lessen the waste, presumably by causing more neutrons to be absorbed byU-238. If the amount of plutonium or other nuclear fuel thus produced is larger than the U-235 consumed, the pile could continue in operation for a very long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Breeding Atoms | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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