Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lifting in the public eye the status of studies otherwise disqualified and rejected by science." Interpreted one way, such studies apparently suggest that the U.S. Negro is inferior to the U.S. white. On IQ tests, he generally averages 15 to 20 points lower. The results of World War I alpha intelligence tests have frequently been cited as evidence of the Negro's mental inferiority, since the Negro soldier invariably ranked below the white soldier on a state-by-state basis. But the same test results can be used in another way to demonstrate that Negroes are smarter than whites...
Phillips Brooks House Association. Pierian Sodality of 1808-H-R Orchestra, Pi Eta Club, The Harvard Pre-Law Society, H-R Premedical Society, H-R Chapter of the Project of The Americas, H-R Psychology Society, Harvard Radio Broadcasting Company, Inc., Harvard Young Republican Club, The Harvard Review, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Signet Society, Harvard Ski Club, H-R Skin Diving Club, H-R Young People's Socialist League, Harvard Southerner's Club, Speakers' Club...
Finally, Surveyor displayed its pièce de résistance, lowering a goldplated, square "jewel box" to the surface. From six radioactive sources in the box, alpha particles bombarded a small area (4 sq. in.) of the lunar surface. Inside the box, delicate sensors recorded the number and velocities of alpha particles rebounding from the surface material and relayed them to earth via Surveyor's radio. By analyzing the pattern of the rebound particles, scientists hope to be able definitely to identify compounds and elements in the lunar soil. "If the experiment succeeds, it will mark the first...
...Lawrence Radiation Laboratory were attempting to synthesize an entirely different isotope when mendelevium 258 was created. A team led by Nuclear Chemist E. Kenneth Hulet was using the laboratory's heavy ion linear accelerator to bombard a tiny amount of einsteinium (a transuranium element discovered in 1952) with alpha particles which consist of two protons and two neutrons. "We expected the alpha particles to join with the heavier isotope of einsteinium," says Hulet, "and then decay by a process called 'electron capture' to fermium...
...pioneering work fresh in his mind, Williams flew to Manaus, Brazil, last month to fulfill a longstanding six-week commitment to serve as senior scientist aboard the Alpha Helix, a sophisticated research vessel operated by California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From Manaus, Williams headed the Alpha Helix upstream for the expedition's shore camp at the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Rio Branco. The Negro, at high-water level during this time of year, "looked like Chesapeake Bay," says Williams. Along the shore, trees and plants were steeped in 30 ft. of the river...