Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier cyclotrons smashed atoms by knocking out of them a few protons or neutrons. Their more powerful successors smash atoms to smithereens, and send protons and neutrons flying every-which-way. Out of the disrupted nuclei come more elusive particles: the mysterious mesons which have atomic scientists in a dither of curiosity...
Life With Father. One Broadway showman who had given the FBI a tearful earful was Producer Oscar Serlin. He has been feuding with Jake & Lee ever since he offended them in 1939 by opening his smash hit Life With Father in the non-Shubert Empire Theater. When he took Life With
...Third Man (Sir Alexander Korda; David O. Selznick) is already a smash hit in Britain, where most critics hailed it as the best movie of 1949. U.S. moviegoers are likely to find it one of the best of 1950. Like The Fallen Idol, by the same brilliant British team-Director Carol Reed and Scripter Graham Greene-it adds an extra depth of character insight and a new texture of pictorial eloquence to the kind of spellbinding thriller that made Alfred Hitchcock famous...
London Without Railings. I Leap Over the Wall, a sort of deb's diary of Monica's coming out, is a bubbly, effervescent report that is certain to become a lending-library smash. With a smile she recalls the habit she wore for 28 years. It began next the skin with "a nice, thick, long-sleeved 'shift' of rough, scratchy serge . . . Stays, shoulder-strapped and severely boned, concealed one's outline; over them, two long serge petticoats were lashed securely round one's waist. Last came the ample habit-coat of heavy cloth, topped...