Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Dr. Edward U. Condon, Chief of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, told the Paris conference that the job had been done-by transmutation. Pure gold (atomic weight 197), placed in an atomic pile and exposed to a storm of neutrons, is transmuted into a single mercury isotope with atomic weight 198. This one-isotope mercury gives off green light waves of extraordinary uniformity, as measuring sticks. They are much better than cadmium light; they are vastly better than the meter bar. Scientists using mercury light should be able to measure with an accuracy of one part...
...creature was stirring in the Yard last night, but it looked like the calm before what University police feared would be a storm of Big Green activity during the wee hours of the morning...
...sculptor's restless mind was bound to lead him into new ways of expression. He moved to Manhattan and took it by storm in 1917 with an exhibition of a totally different kind: a roomful of carved comments on modern life. Now Nadelman's slimmed-down Venuses did high kicks, his Jupiters wore boiled shirts and derby hats, his Muses played the piano. Critic Henry McBride described the show as "culture to the breaking point." It all but sold...
WEST POINT, N.Y., Oct. 15--The Crimson Varsity invaded the inner sanctum of Army's football greatness this afternoon, working out for an hour on the turf of Michie Stadium before retiring to nearby Storm King school for the night...
...rest of the story concerns the hero's love affairs and other tried & true situations and characters familiar in historical romances: old Madam Inman, the head of the clan; the malicious Federalists and Jefferson's Embargo Act; the great storm at sea; the brilliant and hysterical girl; the cheers when the long-overdue ship reaches Salem harbor again. The Running of the Tide is no worse than most historical novels, but no better either...