Word: smyth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the War Department told the story of their success. Professor H. D. Smyth, chairman of Princeton's physics department, who wrote the report, could not tell it all. But what he could tell, even in the prim language of the scientific laboratory, made the most fantastic and meaningful story to come...
...below the "critical size" of the theory, instruments gave the alarm. The reaction was starting to cook. Luckily, the cadmium strips had been inserted at "retard" position. Slowed down by their influence, the reaction was easily stopped. "This," commented Dr. Smyth dryly, "was fortunate...
Energy & Poisons. Besides plutonium, the Hanford plant produced two frightening by-product effects. The water which cooled the piles carried off enough energy, derived from the chain reaction, to heat the Columbia River appreciably. No definite figures have been released, but the hints in Dr. Smyth's report are portentous. Some relative of the uranium pile may still prove a power source great enough to run all the world's machines...
...Find. Geologists first stumbled on traces of iron around Steep Rock Lake, 40 miles north of the Minnesota border, in 1891. In the early 1900s, Harvard Geologist H. L. Smyth decided the main deposit might be under the lake itself. In 1930, Julian G. Cross, an Ontario prospector, poked around the site, came away sure he had something...
Junior Varsity: Stroke, J. P. Chandler '47; 7, D. G. Smyth V-12; 6, D. McCollester '47; 5, R. B. Perkins NROTC; 4, E. Gordy '46; 3, R. W. Locke '47; 2, E. L. Parker V-12; bow, N. R. Ayer '47; Cox, 5, W. Amory NROTC 4, S. D. Moot V-12; 3, H. S. Morgan NROTC; 2. J. M. Conant '47; bow, R. T. Edmunds V-12 cox, R. J. Ward...