Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current issue of Physics Today, Dr. George Gamow tells why he thinks that neutrinos are as real as electrons or protons. Physicists, he says, invented neutrinos because they needed something to explain why electrons, shot out of the same atomic nuclei under the same conditions, do not all have the same energy. One way to account for this discrepancy is to imagine a very small, uncharged particle that departs at the same time as the electron, carrying with it some of the energy...
...like a firing gun. The energy of the particles and the recoiling atom can be measured accurately by studying the tracks of moisture they make in a Wilson cloud chamber. Theoretically, they should balance; but in many cases they do not. Why? Physicists assume that invisible neutrinos have been shot away, too, affecting the recoil of the atom...
...vast (516 branches) Bank of America has been the target for assorted stones from many a sling. For two years the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division investigated; off & on for eight years the Securities & Exchange Commission let fly, with everything from pebbles to paving blocks. Every shot bounced off the tough hide of old (78), imperious "A.P." Last week Bank of America reported record resources of $5,859,234,000, putting it farther out in front than ever as the biggest U.S. bank...
...black Rolls-Royce beside the 18th green at Hoylake, so that he could drive away triumphantly when his day's work was done (he finished sixth). No such liberties were permitted last week at Muirfield, which Scots regard as hallowed ground. In the qualifying round he shot two 69s, to lead the field. The skeptics considered it a fluke. Some crack golfers had struggled in behind him. From the U.S. had come 13 talented men, including former Open Champion Lawson Little and Claude Harmon (winner of the recent Masters' Tournament...
...last hole of the tourney, he flubbed a shot from a bunker-just like a Sunday duffer. But on the next try, the ball hopped out like a trained rabbit, five feet from the pin. He canned the putt for a score of 284, enough to win his third British Open and the cheers of 10,000 spectators. The first prize was worth only $600 in cash, but a hundred times that in prestige. As a shot in the arm for British sport lovers, the value of his victory was beyond reckoning...