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...developed a "molecular beam" consisting of a stream of molecules shot through a very fine slit into a vacuum tube. In the empty tube, each molecule traveled in a straight line. When it was subjected to a magnetic field, a molecule's magnetic "moment" or force could be gauged by the extent of its deflection from a straight course...
...injured and the nurses unquestionably saved his life. I didn't get any work done that day. Most of it I sat around the hospital holding my big head in my hands and waiting to give blood if they wanted type zero. That night I dug myself a slit trench and slept...
...Arnhem. Meanwhile General Dempsey's rescue force itself was in a ticklish spot. It had pierced a narrow slit into enemy territory. Behind it the Germans rushed in to cut it off. By furious tank attacks, the Germans at one point seized the road that was Dempsey's supply lifeline. After anxious hours they were thrown back, only to try again at another point. One mile from the slim corridor of advance, airborne Americans smashed a German concentration. A call for help brought rocket-firing aircraft into play against the tanks, and the second thrust was beaten back...
...these surpluses "are available through most unusual sources." A most unusual source, he said, was Manhattan's Worldwide Mercantile Corp., which conveniently shared its office with Consolidated Industries. A contact man for Consolidated Industries, said he, was none other than Irving Wexler, 58, alias Waxey Gordon, the beefy, slit-eyed top dog of New York City's beer runners in the lush days of Prohibition...
...going to let them hold Kweilin, even if they take it. But now in this place and hour of defeat we know that this campaign has tacked six months on to the U.S. war against Japan. They raided us at this base last night and we dozed in slit trenches. Somebody mentioned the fact that today the Navy landed in Palau. A captain stopped to chat with me this morning. I asked him whether he'd heard the news about Palau. "Palau is swell." he said, "But, God, they've got to hurry - they...