Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Gustaf V of Sweden, 90, ordered by his doctor to stay home, missed the annual dinner of the Swedish Academy for the first time in 74 years. Muttered His Majesty: "Hare-shooting is less fatiguing than attending public banquets...
...masses" of plutonium or uranium 235. When the two masses are far away from each other, nothing happens. The neutrons generated spontaneously within each piece escape so rapidly through the surface that a chain reaction cannot get started. But when the two pieces are brought close together, the neutrons stay in the uranium longer. By splitting uranium atoms and thus releasing more neutrons, they start a nuclear chain reaction which does not stop until the explosion has scattered the fissionable material...
Both kinds will get plenty of chance to hear him. At 40, Yorkshireman Kell has come to the U.S. to stay. Says he: "All I could see ahead over there was the same old sort of thing. I thought I'd get out a bit and see what America might offer...
...ballet." He had used most of the gay, though sometimes brittle and bony score that Prokofiev had composed on a Kremlin commission during the war, but he had taken nothing of the Bolshoi Theater's spectacular and even longer ballet. A typical difference: while Ashton has his hero stay close to home, the Russians sent their Prince Charming chasing around the world after the glass slipper's owner so that they could have a whirl at Turkish, Spanish and African dances. Said Ashton: "The trouble with most long ballets is that no matter how good they are, they...
Russell's answer must have been tolerant, because Lawrence promptly complained that it was. He then went on to say: "You must put off your . . . knowledge . . . you must live in my world . . . if I can't inhabit yours." To make sure, he went to stay a few days with Russell in Cambridge, rushed away in a state of "melancholic malaria." "I wish you would swear a sort of allegiance with me," he said. ". . . I have been much too Christian . . . I must drop all about God . . . You must drop all your democracy . . . There must be an aristocracy . . . a Ruler...