Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precipitate" from the cloud were light stony silicates, which formed the cores of the earth and moon. But the earth's core was bigger than the moon's, and it attracted much more of the heavy iron which precipitated later from the dust cloud. For this reason, says Urey, the moon is lighter, volume for volume, than the earth...
Long Road. By 1915, when he graduated, Selman Waksman already had one toe on the threshold of a great discovery: he had found in the soil a microbe which he has since named Streptomyces griseus.* He had no reason to suspect that it was a life-saving drug. A year later he wrote his master's thesis on this and related microbes. He was on the road to streptomycin, but it would be almost 30 years before he reached the end of the road...
Then, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23, something like panic began. There seemed to be no reason for it, but everybody began to sell. In that final hour of trading, 2,500,000 shares changed hands and prices tumbled crazily: Auburn Auto, which had recently sold as high as 514, lost 77 points to close at 260; Adams Express, which had once been up to 750, lost 96 to close at 440. The closing bell stopped the selling. All night, brokers sent out frantic telegrams to the hundreds of thousands who had bought on margin, putting up as little...
...White House in 1933, Herbert Hoover last week took on a private business job.* He became a member of the new board of directors of Conrad Hilton's newly purchased Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (TIME, Oct. 17). Hoover, who will receive $30 per board meeting, had an added reason to take the Waldorf job. He lives there...
...administration has often been accused of trying to squelch the Undergraduate Council, an ineffectual group to begin with. It insists on censoring Princeton's version of the Confy Guide, and once boycotted all merchants that sold it--although perhaps with good reason: the booklet had written that a certain professor "jumps around on the lecture platform like a man with four cents in front of a five-cent water closet...