Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission had a peculiar problem with its library. Scattered widely around the great reservation are many individual laboratories, and the scientists could not use the central library without great waste of time in transit. Worse yet, some of Oak Ridge's laboratories are "hot" (radioactive), and borrowed papers which might pick up radioactivity in a hot lab could not be returned to the library...
...Gilbert Corporation is the leader in this field. Their engineers are apparently inside men in the Pentagon and Oak Ridge, who are lifting the latest trade secrets. This whole program of advancing scientific orientation of the little tots is a kind of junior universal military training to prepare them for the coming, grim years...
...through the critical years of the bomb project, Gardner worked at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos. As one colleague put it, his brain was "one of the nation's great natural resources." When he returned to Berkeley in 1945, his disease was well advanced. He complained of fatigue and shortness of breath. X-ray examination of his chest showed fibrosis in both lungs. But no one could tell the cause; no treatment did any good. He had hardly enough strength for laboratory desk work...
...oak-paneled courtroom in Manhattan's Federal Court House last week, Judge Harold R. Medina peered down from his bench at an array of more than 30 lawyers. Pleasantly, he advised them: "Just lead me along like a child and explain to me how it works...
...eleventh successive year, Old Boy Winston Churchill traveled down to Harrow's annual songfest, requested John Peel, Hearts of Oak and a tune called The Island, which he had sung as a student almost 60 years...