Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subsidies. Less than one-fifth of the total amount is to be devoted to needs of units as large as the College or Medical School, less than one-fifth will go toward raising the level of salaries, maintenance and scholarships generally, while four-fifths single out favorite departments, or sub-departments for large research or maintenance gifts...
...note Mario repudiated the confession, and said it had been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the time of the Inquisition." Said Padilla: "The darkest chapter in Mexico's history of iniquities." Said Secret Police sub-Chief Jesùs Galindo of Mario's blast: ''Nothing but lies...
...thought they knew nearly everything there was to know about the atom. Now, Nuclear Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer told the meeting, they are "frankly puzzled." The notion that an atom consists only of electrons, protons and neutrons has been knocked into a cocked hat by the discovery of mystifying sub-particles -positrons, mesotrons, and a hypothetical particle called the neutrino...
Nobody knows, said Oppenheimer, how the sub-particles fit together or affect each other. To find out, physicists must somehow duplicate the atom-smashing carried on in nature by cosmic rays...
...Winds. It looked as if he might. In the second round he pitched dead on the pin with perfect aim, sank 30-ft. putts, took the lead with another sub-par 70. But on the third day the winds came. Cotton had counted on St. Andrews' unpredictable gales to confound the four visiting Americans. But Cotton's own game was confounded too. The winds troubled Sammy Snead, the Virginia hillbilly with a reliable swing and an unreliable temperament; his powerful drives were swooped up by gusts and landed in the rough. When somebody told him the same thing...