Word: sixings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Originated at Harvard, the Salzburg Seminar is an educational experiment which brings together 100 students from all over Europe for six weeks of intensive study of American arts and social studies under an American faculty...
Another of Lilienthal's problems was deciding what portion of AEC's resources should go to non-military use. An original estimate of a six-to-eight year head start in atomic bomb production allowed the AEC to go ahead with power-plant and medical research projects; intelligence reports and scientific evidence filtering out of Russia last summer indicated that the estimate was wrong. President Truman's September announcement that Russia had produced an atomic explosion fathered continuing military demands that the AEC concentrate almost entirely on making bombs and improving them. Other questions which Lilienthal worked over while...
...leaves the AEC looking for a chairman to carry it through what will probably be a tremendous period of expansion. We are now committed to an atomic armament race until some sort of an international control is created. This means increased production and hopped-up bombs; rumors of a six-times-more-powerful-than-Nagasaki weapon have been indirectly confirmed by the forthcoming Eniwetok tests. Electric generators run by atomic piles are well off the drawing boards; so are propulsion units for ships and even aircraft. Some laboratories are gingerly experimenting with radioactive gas as a weapon...
Election of six Radcliffe seniors, two of them married, to the Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was announced last night by Miss Mary Lee, chapter president...
...catch is two-fold. Of those men on the team today, five will graduate at midyear. And of those six who graduated last June, more than one have left crucial gaps in the lineup...