Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producers" of radioactivity (reactor men and weapons makers) maintained that, with proper precautions, there was little to worry about. But from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's huge Hanford plutonium plant near the Columbia River in Washington, came a plain-spoken report of how even the tightest precautions have some leaks. Radioactive wastes from Hanford, e.g., phosphorous, got into the river in water that had been used to cool the Hanford reactors. The waste was first absorbed by diatoms, tiny simple-celled plants, then by the larvae of insects. Fish that ate the larvae registered a radiophosphorous concentration...
...history, he found ample precedent for trouble. On a stormy night in 1764, all but 404 volumes of the 125-year-old library were destroyed by fire. In 1831, Librarian Benjamin Peirce complained that the library was so crowded that "many of the books . . . have been excluded from their proper places by the want of room." For years, the lament was the same, and even after Mrs. George D. Widener gave Harvard a vast new building in memory of her son, who went down on the Titanic, the space problem loomed again...
...lived at 16 Louisburg Square with an old friend and an Irish housekeeper. Most of his books are as Bostonian as the Old North Church. Samples: Semicentennial History of the Tavern Club; Boston Common: Scenes from Four Centuries. Yet for all his patina, Howe is not a proper Proper Bostonian...
Mayor Tibbits hopes to deposit his discoveries in the proper place. Taking "some of my most obvious gems with me," he is leaving England this week for a civic visit to Warwick, R.I., intends to stop off at Yale. "It would be a great pleasure," says he, "if the authorities of Yale should ask me to undertake further research on the history of their founder." If not, there is always Harvard...
...word, in your well-done story of this fast-growing area . . . Once thought of as useful perhaps only for scenery, this area now has an additional value in that our American industry can move to the wide open spaces where there is excellent climate and room for proper planning...