Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think it is a healthful thing not to have the country represented too predominately by either party, for it puts both on their mettle. On the whole, I think it is as easy to put through a well-thought-out program when the two major parties are more nearly equally represented in Congress...
...ckarhcuium-No. 93. Similarly, in 1936, Dr. Fermi created a few atoms of ckaosmium-No. 94. Some of his other discoveries about neutrons: Having no electric charge, neutrons are not affected by the negative electric field outside an atom or by the positive charge on its nucleus. The only thing that stops them, or slows them down, is the mass of the nucleus itself. Hydrogen atoms are almost all nucleus, and so substances rich in hydrogen-such as paraffin and water-are effective neutron brakes. In 1935 Fermi wrote the equation for the slowing down of neutrons by hydrogen...
...edited the famed 100 Riverside Textbooks in Education and besides wrote 18 others. His best seller, Public School Administration, sold some 100,000 copies. Professors who write widely-used texts make a lucrative business of writing textbooks, but last year 70-year-old Ellwood Cubberley did an unprecedented thing with his textbook profits. He gave Stanford's School of Education a new $535,000 building...
...average U. S. citizen the promise of television means the ultimate possibility of going to the cinema in his own home, of seeing newsreels at the moment news happens. To Paramount Pictures executives it meant much the same. thing last August when they bought half interest in Allen B. DuMont Laboratories Inc., laid plans to take a potential competitor into cinema's camp...
...Yale Alumni Association wishes to announce the disappearance of their treasured blue-and-white banner bearing the immortal legend "For God, for Country, and for Yale." Apparently, this item was the only thing gained by Harvard, for Crimson weekenders are still straggling in with doleful reports of lower bank accounts, boiling-points, and morals as a result of the Connecticut invasion...