Word: subs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...glad to get off the train at Regina, despite the sub-zero weather. George W. (for Woodall) Cadbury's 6 feet 5 inches fold uneasily into a sleeping-car berth. After a good night stretched diagonally across two Hotel Saskatchewan beds, he was in fine humor as he talked to newsmen about the job which had brought him all the way from England...
...Bohlen, pointed out that there were no mountains "around here." "That's fine," said Byrnes, "but do you know where 'here' is?" After a full hour of circling they landed, and Byrnes, in a tan topcoat and low pointed shoes, alighted in Moscow's sub-zero weather...
...Einstein Equation,* which shows that all matter, on earth and elsewhere, is merely frozen energy. "It tells us that the most powerful nuclear transformation so far known, the fission of a heavy nucleus, releases only one-1,000th of the energy locked up in its mass." The sub-atomic particles which form the uranium nucleus are not themselves transformed. They are only reshuffled into smaller nuclei, with a tiny loss of mass. If protons, for instance, which are found in all nuclei, could only be transformed into energy, the explosion would be really vigorous...
...There was nobody to block out; we just stood around." The fact remains, however, that the B.U. game descended into a farce within a very few moments of the opening whistle. When Harvard scores on three out of six plays and gets all but the last called back; when sub backs seeing action for the first time this year try field goals from the 30-yard line; when a team that can score at will kicks from punt formation on second down more than once, even a football game begins to look more like a circus...
When the Manhattan Project decided to produce plutonium in quantity for making atomic bombs, almost nothing was known about its chemical properties. It existed only in sub-microscopic quantities. By August 1942, the Metallurgical Laboratory at Chicago had isolated a weighable amount. It wasn't much. Major General Leslie R. Groves, military head of the bomb project, was shown the entire world supply. He peered hard, and remarked, "I don't see anything...