Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine used to trap this elusive iota is known as a cloud chamber. Nothing new, this apparatus has been in use since 1910; it consists of a chamber containing a mixture of liquid and gas and several lead plates, through which the cosmic radiations pass--the gas is cooled, and produces a fog track along the path of ions formed by the charged corpuscles. This track of condensed vapor can be easily seen with the naked eye and also photographed, showing up as a bright streak on the film. Thus electrons, protons and the new particles, although far too infinitesimal...
...electron, which characteristically forms high energy photons, which in turn form more electrons to produce the phenomena known as "electron showers." Due to these showers electrons soon lose their energy, and consequently haven't enough "push" to make much progress through lead. These newly-discovered specks, however, pass through ten centimeters of the metal almost undeviated, with little appreciable loss of energy, and producing no showers...
Four hundred and fifty feet of film pass, during which time the Doctor catalogues the position and character (Announcer: "Observe, please, that each quintuplet has a different personality." This is said triumphantly.) of all but the nurses. By some miracle the last scene arrives--a return to the bathroom scene, but this time only the bathtub can be seen. Four supple bodies are being launched by the nurses into the water...
Morgan Library. The Italianate white marble building that the elder J.P. Morgan built to house his treasures became a public trust in 1924. Polite persistence by any visitor will win a free pass from Custodian Belle da Costa Greene to see. besides the books, numerous paintings, prints and drawings that can still hold their own with any of the great U. S. collections, despite numerous sales and gifts to other museums...
...suits. Last week in the U. S. Supreme Court Nurse Catherine Fearon of New York filed an appeal seeking to have New York's anti-heart balm act declared unconstitutional. Cited by her lawyer was Article I, section 10 of the U. S. Constitution: "No State shall.. . pass any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts. . . ." In the Hanfgarn v. Mark opinion New York's Court of Appeals ruled that marriage "is not a common-law contract as generally understood . . . [containing] many elements foreign...