Word: theodoric
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This week, five years later, the paper is being published (with no comment from the Government) in the Journal of Immunology. Drs. Theodor Rosebury and Elvin Kabat originally wrote it to scare Washington officials; now, they say, they are publishing it to scare the public. Set down with a kind of desperate, scientific calm, the report would make as pleasantly alarming reading as any outrageous fictional chiller-except for the fact that it might all come true...
...production-and they have some of the world's most brilliant atomic scientists. Niels Bohr, who back in 1939 pointed out theoretically that it was the rare U-235 which underwent fission when bombarded by slow neutrons, heads the Danish program. Two other Nobel Prizewinners, Manne Siegbahn and Theodor Svedberg, lead the work at Sweden's new laboratories. The Swiss Federal Council has voted over $4,000,000 for atomic research...
...Aviv, Palestine's modern all-Jewish city, streets are customarily named after Zionist heroes (Theodor Herzl, Baron Rothschild, Field Marshal Lord Allenby, etc.). Last week, when the city fathers pondered street names for a new suburb, a councilman suggested: Why not name the streets after the Ten Commandments...
...swerved and hit a child, crumpled into a tree, and exploded, blowing the two occupants into tattered shreds. Several houses on both sides of the street collapsed as the mines went off. All that remained of one Arab-style villa was a wall with a torn picture of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism...
...first great leader of modern Zionism (the name given the Return) was Theodor Herzl, who had been a foppish Viennese journalist until the Dreyfus case in France convinced him that Jews could never hope to be assimilated by other peoples. Herzl, who once claimed to sum up life in the words of a French popular song ("Life is vain, a bit of hope, a bit of hate, and then-good night!"), suddenly became the dynamic leader of Russian ghetto dwellers. At first he favored a British suggestion that persecuted Jews settle in fertile Uganda, but he found his followers would...