Word: diffusionism
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For such students, the institute offers equipment no other campus could afford. It has use of the largest of the national atomic energy laboratories, the biggest gaseous diffusion plant (for the separation of uranium isotopes), and is in the world center of the production and study of tracer atoms. Its...
"The conference adopted the Sub-Commission method of listing separately the types of utterances which a nation might punish without violating the Covenant. It preserved the seven specific limitations (such as 'expressions which incite persons to alter by violence the system of government'), and added an eighth--the so-called...
Worst Ever. Fuchs, said the joint committee, was by far the most damaging spy. "Fuchs alone has influenced the safety of more people and accomplished greater damage than any other spy not only in the history of the United States but in the history of nations." As a top member...
It was, indeed, the prize-giving season. Outside the Restaurant Drouant in the Rue Gaillon, a policeman remarked to the driver of a Radio Diffusion Franchise truck that he had sensed a new vitality in French literature this year.
One large obstacle to European agreement was shrewd, stubborn Vladimir Porché, director general of state-owned Radio Diffusion Française, who is determinedly plugging France's new 819-line system* as the European standard. Porché has already put up a TV transmitter in Vatican City and...