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...neutrons a second by smashing lightweight elements with deutons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen). With "slow neutrons" lately it has been found possible to produce gamma radiation from silver. For mathematical reasons that physicists find increasingly hard to translate into English, slow neutrons braked by a paraffin shield have more effect on the target than fast ones, are currently lionized in every physics journal...
...Place de la Concorde on Feb. 6, 1934 were the bloodiest in 63 years; and the present trial of Stavisky accomplices bristles with political dynamite. Since most Frenchmen believe that Swindler Stavisky did not commit suicide but was shot by agents of the State detective force to shield men who were high up two years ago and have never been arrested, some sympathy has always attached to the Great Swindler's young widow Arlette. To many a Frenchman her 14 months in prison awaiting trial have seemed unduly severe. She was let out on bail at last (TIME...
...Mark Twain which is slightly more thorough than the others and is written in an easy, flowing manner. The authors of the volume on Poe have attempted a rather heavy philosophical introduction to the work of their protagonist but have made a sincere effort to treat him fairly--and shield him from the frequent adverse criticism which has so often been hurled at him. We were however, a little disappointed, at the introduction to "William Cullen Bryant" which fails, as all introductions to the works of the Prodigy of Cummington fail, to show that he wrote any superior poetry except...
...than the flowery official text later released in French to impress world opinion. According to this, His Majesty cried, "My people, your Emperor, who addresses you, will be in your midst, not hesitating to pour out his life's blood for the independence of Ethiopia. . . . God is our shield and our buckler against the modern weapons of our enemies of tomorrow. . . . Soldiers, when you have heard that in battle your loved and respected Emperor has fallen, do not weep or despair...
...carving shows the lion of Immanuel College holding John Harvard's shield, continental troops in front of Massachusetts Hall, and John Harvard seated in his chair with a suggestive canine appendage. There is also a representation of the first intercollegiate boat race, rowed by Harvard, Yale, and Trinity...