Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Niels Bohr, too, was unsure. Bohr's model of the atom (nucleus and orbit electrons) won him a Nobel Prize in 1922. He escaped from Nazi-ruled Copenhagen in 1943, and brought his precious knowledge to U.S. atom-bomb builders, with whom he worked in thin incognito as "Mr. Nicholas Baker...
...point was clear: if the U.S. does not openly and quickly give full material and economic support to the Nationalist Government, China must pass into the Russian orbit. This could only mean a U.S. strategic retreat to the line of the Marianas Islands...
...Summarily rejected Russia's bid to fortify the Dardanelles (and thus bring Turkey within its orbit of slave states...
...face of this failure, the once sound rule which required all except commuting students to live in University rooms becomes an anachronism. Designed originally as an attempt to make Harvard a more cohesive unit by bringing as many students as possible within the orbit of House life and to break down the isolation and discontinuity of College life caused by the widespread practice of living in "rat-houses" in order to pay one's club dues, the rule has more than justified its intention...
...mankind cannot penetrate." In this speech, and in his attitude at Paris, Byrnes ably and clearly demonstrated the Western Powers' determination to resist Russian expansionism. If one world was not possible, the West was reluctantly ready to go ahead with the organization of the areas outside the Russian orbit. One fact about the two-world solution would not be lost on Moscow: the Western half was still incomparably the stronger...