Word: transferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonderful bridge player," confides Mrs. Libby, "but he's really lousy." Libby got a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to Princeton, but a few months later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and he offered his services to Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey. Urey arranged for Libby's transfer to Columbia University, and he plunged into the historic Manhattan (atom bomb) Project, working through the war with great effect on the key problem of separating the isotopes of uranium. Not until news of the Hiroshima bomb came out did Libby mention his work at home. On that day he came home...
...Washington's director of institutions less than a month ago. Within 20 hours after the conferences began, the prisoners had won all of their key demands : 1) a promise that prison authorities will try to circumvent a state law providing special punishment for rioting or holding hostages, 2) transfer from "the hole," 3) establishment of an inmate council, 4) a survey of parole practices and an annual review of sentences. 5) a study of mail-delivery practices. Then the prisoners swaggered back to their cells...
...white feeling runs high, the Royal Commission's report had a Utopian and distant sound about it. The diehard majority of British settlers is sure to oppose it, and to try to sabotage any attempt at implementation; the settlers can say, with reason, that conditions for peaceful transfer of land between races do not now exist. But some day soon in darkest East Africa, a start must somehow be made; something new must be offered the Africans in place of blood-cults and drums, prejudice and pangas flashing in the night...
NATO is only as strong as its 15 member nations are willing to make it. Last week France, alarmed by colonial troubles in North Africa and desertions of native troops in Algeria, announced the transfer to North Africa of one of the five French divisions pledged to the command of NATO Supreme Commander General Alfred M. Gruenther...
...transfer of power went smoothly, in what the International Control Commission called "an admirable spirit of understanding and tolerance." A Foreign Legionnaire hauled down the Tricolor; a band clanged and rataplanned La Marseillaise; popular Commanding General