Word: diffusionism
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Fundamental to the Davidson concept of general education is the school's connection with the Presbyterian Church. Although the founders of the college proposed "To educate youth of all classes without any regard to the distinction of religious denominations, and thereby to promote the more general diffusion of knowledge and...
During World War II, Akron's Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. got plenty of experience operating Government-owned plants. Among them: three synthetic rubber plants, two of which it still runs, and a big aircraft factory which turned out 4,000 Navy Corsair fighters. Last week Goodyear got its biggest...
He was a slim, sociable gentleman, whose feverish energy left his London friends panting. He founded the Northern Dispensary, helped found the University of London and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. He was chief physician to the Spanish embassy and the Milbank penitentiary, and when he lectured...
The Ohio Valley plant (cost: $1 billion) will separate explosive U-235 from natural uranium by the gaseous-diffusion process which is used at Oak Ridge and will also be used at the plant now being built near Paducah, Ky. The other AEC production plants at Hanford, Wash. and on...
2) The gaseous-diffusion plants, such as the new one in the Ohio Valley, may be used to make "enriched" uranium. Natural uranium contains only .7% of the fissionable isotope U-235. When it is used as fuel in a nuclear reactor it behaves rather sluggishly; the reactor, whether intended...