Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearing a green carnation in his buttonhole, President Truman walked briskly into the great House chamber. In face of a cold audience of Representatives and Senators, he flipped open a brown notebook and read from it. Though he looked like a man who was in a hurry to be off to a St. Patrick's Day parade, the President had something to say; he said it as earnestly and forcefully as he could. He issued a call to arms...
Into Rio's Palacio Tiradentes one afternoon this week strode well-groomed Professor Pereira Lira, President Eurico Gaspar Dutra's personal counselor. He carried a heavy, leather-bound pile of papers, which he placed on the speaker's desk in the Chamber of Deputies. To the opening session of the Brazilian Congress the president had sent a 130,000-word message on the state of the nation...
Bermuda's Chamber of Commerce has generously accepted part of the travel expense of the individual players and has arranged for accommodations for the entire team...
Walter H. Piston '24 has been named as the first man to hold the Walter W. Naumberg Professorship of Music. Professor Piston, a leading American composer, has received wide acclaim for his chamber and symphonic compositions. His latest work, the Third Symphony, was given its world premier by the Boston Symphony Orchestra last January...
...great cyclotron at Berkeley is just barely strong enough. Dr. Eugene Gardner, 35, and Brazilian-born Dr. C.M.G. Lattes, 23, put a thin carbon target in a beam of alpha particles (helium nuclei) in the cyclotron chamber. Figuring that the alpha particles had enough power (380 million electron volts) to knock mesons out of the carbon atoms, Gardner & Lattes put a stack of special photographic plates at the spot where the mesons should hit. Then they turned on the cyclotron. When they developed the plates, they found the characteristic wavy tracks of negative mesons. Some of them ended in "stars...