Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said something about 'Come down and have breakfast with me and then we'll see the President.' It was such a surprise that we even had to borrow a suitcase from a neighbor, so that we could get him off in time to make the train. The next afternoon he called and told me what the President told him about the appointment-but I've been so excited about it that what he said has gone out of my mind...
...circus owner, P.T. Barnum. In 1882 Barnum gave Tufts a museum and from time to time provided it with animal skins to be stuffed for exhibit. Then in 1885 Barnum's most colossal specimen and the world's largest elephant in captivity, Jumbo, was tragically killed by a railroad train. As usual, Barnum promised the elephant's hide to Tufts. But first he took it on a tour of Europe, where twice as many people paid to see Jumbo stuffed (as compared to his earnings when he was alive...
...first time last week in Washington. The idea men chose Milton Eisenhower, Ike's brother and representative, as their chairman, assigned themselves study tasks, set their next meeting for January. Most notable development: Chairman Eisenhower's promise that the U.S. will join in a plan to train Latin Americans in atomic-energy techniques at the Spanish-language University of Puerto Rico. But the atom's promise lies some years ahead. As the supercommittee deliberated, the U.S. Export-Import Bank met one of Latin America's most urgent needs by lending $100 million to Argentina, where...
...avers, is "creeping meatballism," i.e., "the adulation of all that is mediocre-the 'nothings' in the world that have become fads." In the day people v. night people conflict, the night people are in danger because the day folk-who "live in an endless welter of train schedules, memo pads and red tape"-are so well regimented...
Like the identification nearly a year ago of the antiproton (TIME, Oct. 31), the work was done with the Berkeley Bevatron, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, and a long train of auxiliary apparatus. The Bevatron's beam of 6.2 billion-volt protons was shot into a beryllium target. Out of the target came a secondary beam of assorted atomic debris. The particles with a negative charge, separated from the rest by the Bevatron's strong magnetic field, were mostly mesons. Among them were a few antiprotons (negative protons) formed when the Bevatron's powerful...