Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support of the Republic of Korea," he said, "that decision, from a military standpoint, proved a sound one." The enemy was hurled back, and victory was complete when Red China intervened. "This created a new war and an entirely new situation . . . which called for new decisions in the diplomatic sphere." Such decisions, said MacArthur bitterly, "have not been forthcoming...
Included in its articles is a carefully outlined set of jurisdiction rules, stating precisely which group has jurisdiction on all disputable issues. In sphere One, where the faculty, the educational and business administrations have complete control, items such as "rules and regulations concerning the degree," the curriculum," and "public relations" are listed...
...second sphere, that in which students have exclusive control, the organized extra-curricular activities and their budgetary control are included. A third, joint control sphere is concerned with the "obligations attendant upon the opening and closing of college and calendar days," and the broad question of "Vassar citizenship...
Nell Pratt, a sophomore southpaw, looks good in the discus. Jack Kiggen and Bob Buber give the Crimson depth in this event. In the shot, head man is Jerry Kanter, who took the event in the Yale indoor meet by heaving the sphere over 47 feet. Bob Ray should be able to equal this, and Wilson is expected to make a good showing here...
Neutron Source. Another interesting detail was vaguely described by Greenglass. In the center of the bomb, he said, was a beryllium sphere that provided a source of neutrons to make the plutonium explode more suddenly. He may have had in mind a mixture of beryllium and radium, the usual laboratory source of small numbers of neutrons. When bombarded by alpha-particles from radium, beryllium releases neutrons and turns into ordinary carbon. But he may have been right in saying that the central sphere was made of, pure beryllium. Plutonium itself emits alpha-particles, which might knock useful neutrons...