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...that ultimately means coming to terms with oneself. If some "trick" was played by nuclear fission, it was people who played the trick on themselves. In a lecture to fellow scientists, Oppenheimer said, "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." Oppenheimer's presumption is that the physicists, as people, had not known sin before making the Bomb, which sounds like wishful confessing. Nature is what people choose to make...
Halldorson contends Minnesota will be prepared to extinguish Harvard’s offensive firepower...
...crushing blow came once again from intercollegiate No. 6 Reggie Schonborn at the No. 2 position. On Feb. 12, Schonborn beat intercollegiate No. 2 junior Will Broadbent in a five-game marathon to extinguish any hopes Harvard had then of upsetting Trinity...
...MONTHS Time it took to extinguish the fire by pulling apart the pile, which had grown to 100 ft. long by 30 ft. high by 50 ft. wide...
...Harvard researchers found that bands of paper inserted at the mouth end of the cigarettes, which are designed to extinguish the cigarettes before they burn all the way to the end, decrease the risk of fire...