Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there only a limited number of course possible in any given field? Or do department merely split up the accessible knowledge their fields into the number of courses which their teachers are capable of giving...
Uranium is a tricky element. As it comes from the mines, it contains only .7% of the active isotope U-235, whose atoms "fission" (split in two) with a big release of energy. Nearly all the rest is 11-238, an idle isotope which will not fission naturally, though its heavy nucleus contains about the same energy...
When natural uranium is put in a chain-reacting pile, its U-235 atoms start splitting and yielding energy, "fission products" and free neutrons. Some of the neutrons are needed to split more U-235 atoms and keep the reaction going. Others are absorbed by impurities or escape from the pile. The rest enter the atoms of U-238, ultimately turn them into plutonium...
...Split Proceeds. In Spokane, the gunman who robbed Lyle Swenson, and failed to get away in a stalled car, offered to give part of the money back if Swenson would give the car a boost...
Feather Beds. The ICC's 6-to-4 decision split the commission itself wide open. Though ex-Chairman J. Haden Alldredge voted for the raise, he warned that the railroads "certainly may be pricing themselves out of the market." He thought that the roads would be smarter to cut their fares and go after more business, and cited the example of the Central of Georgia, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific, which had boosted traffic by doing just that...