Word: unites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cambridge's "positron" is a particle of positive electricity no heavier than the particle of negative electricity called the electron. Protons, heretofore considered the smallest unit of positive electricity, weigh 1,850 times as much as electrons. Cambridge's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac long ago declared that mathematical necessities require the existence of light-weight protons. Last year Caltech's Carl David Anderson noticed some ion tracks which implied impacts from Theorist Dirac's light protons. Before the Royal Society last fortnight, Dr. P. M. S. Blackett, 35, tall, pale member of Lord Rutherford...
...amusement and instruction the superintendents were to listen to some 100 speeches in five days, not including invocations, welcomes, "jury panel discussions and ordinary discussions. They talked of differential predictions, probable errors, I. Q.'s, unit plans, retention measures. They heard of the Carroll Prose Appreciation Tests and the Minnesota Employment Stabilization Research Institute. They scanned a display of "effective publicity materials for the defense of the schools...
...article on Dunster House which appears in today's CRIMSON is a thorough and adequate description of the House as it stands now in its third year. The fact that the House has gradually become an independent unit is due not merely to long stretches of windy side-walks and tenement house barriers, but also to a quite pardonable feeling of self-satisfaction on the part of the residents at their "splendid isolation." As a result undergraduates as a body have not felt it so strongly their duty to participate in all the inter-House sports as have the members...
...year of residence. The reason for this rule is clear. The Masters are anxious to preserve the unity and identity of their various Houses, to prevent them from degenerating into more dormitories. This anxiety is commendable enough and the Masters are quite justified in discouraging wholesale migrations from one unit to another...
...kings and emperors, with any other negations of the democratic ideal, Mr. Fish is not troubled. He might even, he says, consider recognition were Russia a socialist country. But with him the aged chimera of revolt obscures the definite and practical advantages of normal relations with a powerful political unit. The glory of maintaining such a prejudice as this is, as Mr. Fish may find, not a wholly unmixed...