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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particles, slanted in the other direction by Earth's magnetic field. These bullets were so powerful that 16 cm. of lead slowed them hardly more than 4 cm. It followed, according to accepted theory, that they could not be electrons, for electrons would have been more than a thousand times more strongly absorbed by the greater thickness of lead. They must therefore be either negative protons or some wholly unsuspected negatively charged particle, and since there was already a theoretical demand for negative protons, Dr. Bhabha preferred to set them down as such. U. S. physicists rubbed their chins...
...been the fatherly director of Sing Sing Prison for 17 years. In all these years the Warden has kept not only a steady hand and an open heart, but a warm and sympathetic literary point of view which produced in 1932 a non-fiction best-seller called Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing. Not until he collaborated on Chalked Out, however, had Warden Lawes undertaken to rattle the cup dramatically on his 2,500 punks, wolves and right guys...
...paraders came in contact with police near Pila Hospital in the heart of Ponce. A shot (fired by a Nationalist, according to police) broke the Sunday afternoon calm. The police opened fire with riot and submachine guns, as well as tear gas. When the short battle ended, several thousand onlookers were scrambling to safety, 50 wounded writhed on the pavement, and ten, including one policeman, lay still in death...
...seminary during the latter part of Chauncey's presidency was critical and apparently hopeless. Its buildings were ruinous and almost irreparable, the President was aged and the number of scholars short of what they had been in former days. All its efficient funds did not amount to one thousand pounds; without a new building its situation was desperate. The political difficulties of the colony precluded any expectation of pecuniary aid from the General Court, who, in their best estate, had never been characterized by a disposition to give aid in money. The liberality of individuals was it only resource. Even...
...This is merely the beginning. It will be great fight - a war worth waging. Lives by the thousand will be prolonged or saved-some by aroused personal courage, others by the spread of knowledge to those who need it. There is no longer need to fight cancer alone. Hundreds of thousands will share the burden, understand the sufferings which too long have seared the very soul of men and women. At a time when our country is inclined to develop class, race or creed consciousness or hatreds the menace of a common enemy and the inspiration of fighting it together...