Word: smasher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody but Einstein and a few other people can understand what goes on in the mind of Nobel Prizewinning atom-smasher Enrico Fermi. But one Fermi theory is intelligible to all, and last week 192 students at the University of Chicago were enjoying its practice. The theory: that elementary science courses must be well taught if students are to do well in advanced classes. At Chicago, for the first time in about 15 years of teaching in Italy and the U.S., Dr. Fermi was teaching an elementary physics class himself...
...Krug, one of seven children of a Madison, Wis. policeman, had started working early. He was a football center at the University of Wisconsin (Class of '29) but he was also a serious student (of utilities administration), a part-time iceman, baggage smasher and carpenter. He was married in his sophomore year, had to support his wife as well as himself...
Besides tossing off mesons, the G.E. betatron has smashed nearly every type of atom to smithereens. The other great atom-smasher, the cyclotron, is used to shoot high-velocity particles at atoms. The betatron shoots pure energy in the form of X rays. When the X rays hit the nucleus of an atom, they act something like a red-hot poker thrust into a glass of almost-boiling water. The added energy entering the nucleus causes some of its particles to "boil off" like steam. To celebrate their triumph, the G.E. scientists were already busy last week building more & more...
Jack Puckett spent the greater part of last Sunday reducing his radio to an atom-smasher--or something that makes a horrible noise when desired...
...discredit among Hitler, Rommel and Rundstedt. It is generally agreed already that the Germans held back their reserves too long, and their Fifteenth Army north of the Seine until too late, because Eisenhower cleverly kept them worried about a second invasion in Pas de Calais. Bradley was the line smasher as well as quarterback for the Allied operations (as he is now). He did not fumble, and he invariably capitalized on the errors of the enemy...