Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor Bombs Are Easy. The trick is to bring them together quickly enough. If they approach one another slowly, they begin to react before they are fully in contact. The heat developed drives them apart prematurely, and the reaction stops. In the bomb described in the Smyth Report, the masses were driven together, probably in millionths of a second, by some such "low-order explosive" as TNT. Even if the Russians did not do as well as U.S. scientists, their less efficient bomb would still produce an "atomic explosion...
...foremost civic problems--the unsnarling of traffic and the improvement of port facilities. The old artery from Charlestown to Chelsea had two drawbridges on route, one of which was opened 7000 times last year for an average of ten minutes each time. That drawbridge was in such poor condition that the War Department had come very near requesting the two cities involved to build a new one at their own expense. And even with such time hazards, 11 million vehicles passed over that road last year...
...Little's 1948 starters have been graduated, and this bit of poor fortune puts Little, who is regarded as something of a football magician (his best act is plucking an excellent passer out of the New York City streets and comes off every couple of years), in a rather embarrassing situation. This year his roster reads like an out-of-town phone book...
Hanover police chief Andrew J. Ferguson said he believed there was no malice or premeditation involved, but that Devee was guilty of poor judgment in firing a .23 caliber telescope equipped target rifle at beer cans floating is the Connecticut River...
...endanger the Crimson's lead, in the immediate future, anyway, but Yale seems to be narrowing the gap and Jaakko regretfully reports that this year the Eli's have a fair chance of winning the intercollegiate championship. Since good cross-country teams usually lead to good track teams and poor cross-country teams don't such a situation doesn't bode well for the spring either...