Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are opportunities for other teams which may have hopes of winning olive wreaths and oak trees but unfortunately not too bright ones. America's major sports--football, baseball and basketball--gain rather minor positions in Olympics. Football, as the U. S. plays it, is popular in no other nation and although there has been talk of sending an exhibition team, it is unlikely. An exhibition baseball team usually travels to the Olympic games and in 1948 there may be some other nations to play it. If there are and the executive committee decides to send one, the players would...
...Eliot House, the oak-pannelled front door of John H. Finley, master of the House, was bedecked with another pair of the scarlet letters...
...Other element-hunters polished off some unfinished business. Two young nuclear chemists, J. A. Marinsky and L. E. Glendenin of M.I.T., announced that while working at Oak Ridge, Tenn. they had synthesized and isolated Element 61, thus filling the last gap in the periodic table. They had extracted the missing element from the miscellaneous "fission products" formed by uranium atoms splitting in the Oak Ridge pile, and had also built it up by bombarding Element No. 60 (neodymium) with neutrons...
They started the job, however, in about the same way as their rivals, and came to the same initial conclusions. One way to get atomic energy, they decided, was to separate the reactive U-235 from the other uranium isotopes. The U.S. did this successfully at Oak Ridge, Tenn., but the Germans soon concluded that the enormous industrial effort required would be too much for war-burdened Germany...
...conditions: 1) the recipients must state the purpose for which they intend to use the isotopes and agree to stick to that purpose; 2) they must make progress reports to the U.S.; 3) they must open their laboratories to visiting scientists from other countries. Prices were low, but F.O.B. Oak Ridge...