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Attracted by gravitation, they flash down to the center of the star, releasing enormous energy. The reaction may spread in a short time through most of the mass of the star. The energy released is enough to blow off the star's outer layer. All that remains, according to this theory, is a small, dense core of neutrons and a vast shell of flaming gas that burns itself out in a few months of splendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two Million Suns | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...dense materials like lead. "A material which is good for stopping gamma rays," says Dr. Kalitinsky, "may not be the best when gamma rays and neutrons are considered together, and a material which is good for the innermost part of the shield may not be the best for the outer layers. There is, therefore, considerable room for weight reduction by ingenious design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atom-Driven Planes | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...OUTER EDGES (240 pp.)-CAar/es Jackson-Rineharf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Effort | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Like his others, The Outer Edges is a sort of chapter from Freud-made-easy; it burrows clinically into some untidy closets of human guilt and frustration. In his first book, he managed to put most of his readers in a dipsomaniac's shoes. In his second, on homosexuality, he was nowhere near so persuasive. Now he has written about a grisly rape-murder case to prove that, vicariously at least, there is something of the murderer in everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Effort | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Headed by Robert F. Bradford '23, chief marshal of the Alumni, the assembled members of the reunion classes will form at 2 o'clock in the outer Yard and pass into the Theater after commencement dignitaries on the Widener steps review the pageant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Gathering Will Hear Honorary Degree Recipients | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

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