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Where radiobiology formerly had only one strongly active element-radium-to work with, it now has dozens. All will be far cheaper and more useful than radium...
...correspondent, staring at the scene from the Missouri's No. 2 turret, whispered: "I don't know what they're going to call this; I hope it won't be the 'Missouri Compromise.' " But there was no element of compromise in the surrender document, or in the ceremony...
...fact that the "Germans" of whom Velleius Paterculus wrote were the people who lived in northern Europe in the land which then included not only present-day Germany but also the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, northeastern France, Austria and part of Czechoslovakia. These same "Germans" make up the Saxon element of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and it seems to me that the English must be not a little proud of their drop of Saxon blood since they constantly refer to themselves as "Anglo-Saxons...
...cannot conceive that any element of new conflict exists in the Balkans today. Nevertheless, not many members of the new House of Commons will be content with the situation prevailing in those mountainous, turbulent, ill-organized, warlike regions . . . for almost everywhere Communist forces have obtained or are in the process of obtaining dictatorial powers...
Plutonium is a fairly stable element. Like the rare U-235, it is also "fissionable" it can be made to explode in a violent chain reaction. Furthermore, it is not an isotope of uranium, but an entirely different chemical element. Therefore it can be separated from uranium comparatively easily by chemical means while U-235 clings to U-238 with tenacious obstinacy...