Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Purcell lunched with Robert V. Pound, then on leave from a Harvard Junior Fellowship, and H. C. Torrey, on leave from Rutgers. During the conversation, Purcell mentioned the idea he was mulling over. Briefly it involved measuring the forces at work inside atoms, taking advantage of the fact that most nuclei act as if they are extremely small, rapidly spinning bar magnets. "The only difficulty to be solved was that no one knew whether the extremely feeble effect of these magnets in ordinary substances could actually be detected...
Just before Christmas the important day dawned--the equipment was ready. Newspapermen had a field day describing the event: "Purcell, Pound, and Torrey stayed in their workshop until four o'clock one December morning," one article read, "When they left to go home through a blinding snowstorm, they had completed their preparations...Several days passed before they had any spare time...One Saturday morning Purcell went into the shed, warmed the equipment, and waited for the others...they threw the switches. The experiment worked...
...Reynolds 2GB, who has served as unofficial coach of the 150 pound crew during the fall season, will coach the team in official capacity for the first time this spring. He succeeds Bert Haines as crew mentor...
...Home. How to get back home is the really tough problem. If the space men want to see the earth again, they must climb back out of the gravitational field of the target planet. This would be about as difficult as the painful escape from the earth, and every pound of fuel for the effort would have to be brought from the earth...
Mello won the broad jump and soared 12 feet 6 inches in the pole vault for second place behind Rhode Island's Bob Linne. Curran threw the 35 pound weight 52 feet 1 1/4 inches to beat Whitey Black and Dirck Walecka in one of three Crimson sweeps...