Word: atomizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...francs. The U. S. businessman, in the days before the Revolution, was George Babbitt, a booster-a booster because he was a believer. He believed in money because it represented something else: power, as some called it; freedom, as others called it. Power, freedom and money were an indivisible atom. Therefore, dollars mattered...
...banks were closed in the country where dollars mattered. Few businessmen could read that portent. Most businessmen retained their faith that this depression would pass like others. Not until the Second and Third New Deals did businessmen begin to suspect that the New Deal was splitting the Money-Power atom; that henceforth money would be just money, while Power was going to belong to politics. A.D. 1940 was the year in which that suspicion was confirmed...
Hospital told some colleagues in Cleveland that Memorial's doctors thought they had the answer. Their weapon, made by California Atom-Smasher Ernest Orlando Lawrence: radioactive phosphorus...
...many-valued, fills the chasm between true and not true with probabilities. A four-valued logic would permit: true, probably true, possibly true, not true. (The word "and" then acquires 14.348,907 distinct meanings.*) Such logic is not speculative nonsense but a tool urgently needed, for example, by atom-studying physicists. It is also vital in comprehending the relativity-universe prescribed by the theory of emergent evolution...
...student guide service for a general tour of the Yard, a Special Alumni Exhibit at Widener Library, and visits to the Cyclotron ("Atom-Smasher") attracted the attention of those who did not attend the classes...