Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robinson Hall plays host this week and next to the artistic work of more than a dozen undergraduates. Included in a selective exhibit of works done by members of the Harvard Art Association are pictures ranging from oils and water colors to charcoal drawings...
...seal the radioactive atoms in concrete cylinders and drop them into the ocean. No good, says Rose: in 100 years or so the cylinders might break open and discharge their still radioactive atoms. Another proposal: bury the atoms deep in abandoned caves. But they might be dissolved by underground water, flow out and spread the atoms as rain...
...conferees also did some worrying about the hazards of atomic explosions (i.e., bombs). An atomic explosion that contaminated a city's water supply, warns Dr. E. G. Williams of the U.S. Public Health Service, would compel complete evacuation of the city for months, years or perhaps permanently. Scientists can only guess at how widely the effects of such a catastrophe might spread. Would the radioactive water be sucked up by roots and contaminate food plants ? Would the poison be passed on to successive plant generations by radioactive seeds...
Help Yourself. In a new self-service gas station in Los Angeles, motorists helped themselves to gasoline, oil, water, and air for their tires, paid the station's cut-rate charges to girls on roller skates. The customers liked the new prices, but some found the system confusing. One was prevented just in time from putting oil into his battery, another misjudged the automatic cut-off on the gasoline hose, doused one of the cruising cashiers...
...Flowering and Indian Summer, comes The Times of Melville and Whitman, a rich portrait of U.S. literary life shortly before & after the Civil War. Hopping nimbly from region to region, Brooks lovingly sketches their literary manners-the rash of reform movements in New York, "attractional harmony and passional hygiene . . . water cure and Graham Bread"; the burly tall tales of the Far West where Joaquin Miller, "the greatest liar living . . . half a mountebank and all the time a showman," turned out crude, vigorous sketches of pioneer life; the sad whimsies of the post bellum South, where Constance Fenimore Woolson...