Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning from the site of the Manhattan Project development at Los Alamos, the Harvard Cyclotron is coming back to a new building which will be constructed specifically to house it. Pre-war researchers built the Cyclotron at the Gordon McKay Engineering Laboratories in 1938, The tremendous energies necessary in the atom-smashing experiments gave the scientists early indication of the fantastic powers locked in the nucleus of the atom...
Founded as King William's School in 1696, the third oldest college in the U.S. (older: Harvard, William & Mary), St. John's for the last eight years has been the site of robust, red-haired Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr's noble experiment in education by the world's 100 Great Books. Debt-ridden by a heavy mortgage, which Barr has managed to cut a third, and reduced by war to 22 teachers and 93 students, St. John's has been uncomfortably aware for the last five years of the Academy's predacious...
...economic position in Manchuria, actively concerning itself with the control of Japan. The U.S., which five years ago seemed half-indifferent, was now insistently expressing its views on the internal politics of Balkan countries, expanding its influence in the Middle East, preparing to keep great island bases oppo site Russia's back door...
...clasp is clearly visible. The semi-transparent oblong below is a package of chewing gum. The picture was made by placing the purse on a sheet of ordinary photographic film. On top of the purse were placed pieces of twisted steel and several bits of fused earth from the site of the famous bomb test in New Mexico. Their radiation (probably gamma rays) penetrated the cloth easily, the gum with more difficulty, but was stopped by the metal objects...
...wide, flat valley dotted with greasewood, yucca and bunch grass selected as site for the test explosion is known in Manhattan Project doubletalk as "Trinity." Most of the land once belonged to a rancher named MacDonald, whose wrecked ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman...