Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The AEC was set up by Congress in 1946 to take over the Army's atomic energy program. The new commission inherited a uranium plant at Oak Ridge, military laboratories at Los Angeles, a research program mainly directed towards weapon development, and a small supply of atomic bombs. David E...
Just over a week ago, President Truman regretfully accepted Lilienthal's resignation. This loss leaves the AEC looking for a chairman to carry it through what will probably be a tremendous period of expansion. We are now committed to an atomic armament race until some sort of an international control...
The story, as most of the local press played it, was either completely inaccurate or misleading. For one thing; Bingham said Harvard was giving up "big-time" football. What is "big-time" football? He implied the football team would continue to play traditional Ivy League opponents. Six of Harvard's...
Then there is the problem of Pennsylvania, Bingham is entitled to his opinion that Penn subsidizes football by scholarships, and I am not sure he is wrong; but it was a poor idea to bring this up now. For one thing, Harvard has not played Penn since 1942, so why...
The third and most important reason why this particular statement should not have come out at this time is that the Ivy League scheduling meeting irritated many other Ivy League schools and it is doubtful that this will react to Bingham's advantage when it comes to making up he...