Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other extreme of physics-the infinitesimally small end-there was also baffling news. Last week, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, ex-head of the Los Alamos (atom bomb) Laboratory, postulated a new sub-atomic particle: the neutral meson, which leads an even more feverishly active life than the positive and negative meson which scientists already know about. In its normal habitat within an atomic nucleus, it "lives" only one hundredth of a sextillionth (1/100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th) of a second. The neutral meson's brief life, remarked Professor Oppenheimer, may be the reason no physicist...
...there was only one possible course: suicide. He could not commit hara-kiri because his samurai saber had been confiscated by the enemy. Death by drowning or jumping in front of a train would be improper. He decided to end his life by starvation and exposure (the weather was sub-zero...
From the written statements voluntarily submitted to a 30-man Council Sub-Committee on General Education by from 20 to 30 percent of the men and women in the classes, the Sub-Committee, most of whose members are either taking or auditing G. E. courses, compiled a 16-page report on six of the seven courses. Released yesterday, the report contains views not only of those polled, but also of the Sub-Committee members...
...report disclosed plans for a more thorough and detailed survey of all students in General Education to be conducted in April. Although its purpose is "to investigate more fully questions raised in this report and to help resolve any problems which may arise," the Sub-Committee states in the current analysis that "no final judgement can be made until the end of the course, and even then its worth may not be immediately apparrent...
...correspondents were still waiting for an appointment when most of the sub-teenagers of Nanking's foreign colony straggled in. The General had invited them some time ago for afternoon movies and ice cream; he would not break this date even for affairs of state. Between meetings with the press and a long list of callers, including T. V. Soong and Chou En-lai's secretary, Chang Wen-chin, the General looked in on the moppets as they disposed of a gallon or so of vanilla. That evening he drove to the Gimo's again for family...