Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hondurans got the tipoff last month when Oppositionist Edmundo Pinto Mejia was arrested, then savagely beaten with the classic verga de toro (bull's pizzle). Newsmen hustling into Guatemala for safety last week reported a new "wave of terror"; Dictator Carías' jails were filling fast...
...Wave or Particle? It was abundantly clear at the Chicago meeting that the atomic scientists had found neutrons fascinating toys. Biggest news was the neutron's probings into the nature of matter...
...modern theory of wave mechanics, which holds that units of matter (e.g., electrons and protons) behave partly like particles, partly like waves, rests on a revolutionary electron experiment performed by Clinton J. Davisson and Lester H. Germer in 1927. Their experiment, done with crystals, was analogous to shooting a beam of electrons at a barrier punctured by two holes very close together...
...equipment finished, the Navy's mathematics division in New York made out tables for photographing wave forms of the proper size. The photographing was a long tedious job, that involved thousands of separate photographs. One track needed as many as 12,000 separate exposures...
...next Council is not to be neutralized by a wave of non-confidence growing out of its continued denial of the democratic process, it must scrap the present plan of nomination-appointment and substitute a system of free election of representatives. It is generally conceded that the Houses provide a more cohesive group of elective units than do the classes, thus each of the Houses and Dudley should be allotted two representatives, to be chosen by open election in March of each year. The incoming Sophomore class would be represented by four men, to be chosen from the Yard...