Word: tenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whitehaven, Tenn. (pop. 2,000), eight marriages of high-school students since September were too many for Principal Fred Elliott. He announced that hereafter students who got married would be dismissed from school. He also forbade the boys & girls to lunch or stroll together, or to hold hands...
Powerful Primo Camera, year-long heavyweight champ in the early '30s, was having trouble with his hands. In Knoxville, Tenn., he shook a sports promoter's hand, broke it-the promoter's-in two places. In Miami, Mrs. Rosalie B. Marano sued him for $25,000, charged that he had pawed her in an auto last February and she still hurt...
There will also be two chain-reacting piles: one of low power like the pile now operating at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; the other hundreds of times stronger...
...annual research budget (including the atom) to $1,200,000,000. Last month Sergei Vavilov, president of the Soviet Academy of Science, said that 100,000 Russians were now engaged in "scientific work." Soviet physicists had separated U-235 by thermal diffusion (a process used at Oak Ridge, Tenn.) at the Dnepropetrovsk power plant in 1942 before the Nazis destroyed...
...started with Alexander the Great," explained Senator Kenneth McKellar (D. Tenn.) to a surprised President Conant before a committee investigating the appointment of David E. Lillienthal as Atomic Energy Chief. The subject of discussion was atom splitting...