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...radium, the usual laboratory source of small numbers of neutrons. When bombarded by alpha-particles from radium, beryllium releases neutrons and turns into ordinary carbon. But he may have been right in saying that the central sphere was made of, pure beryllium. Plutonium itself emits alpha-particles, which might knock useful neutrons out of the beryllium...
...farm editor last week, "is a one-sided political editorial . . . a clever attempt to use the movies to sway public opinion ... [it is] making history in the field of farm politics." Does it mean, he went on to ask, that the movie industry "is going to bat to knock the Government out of agriculture?" "The cartoon," said Satirist Sutherland, "was not aimed specifically at the . . . Brannan Plan, but if the shoe fits, they can wear...
...that the cotton men had no logical answer; logic or no, they were out to knock the ceiling off cotton...
Test Matches. Cooke makes no attempt to be a political oracle, is not regarded as such in Britain. Ordinarily he avoids political predictions, sticks to interpreting what has happened, and, in doing so, usually leans toward the Administration line. But his shrewd wit can often knock an overblown issue down to its true perspective. When other correspondents wrote of a 'Rising tide" of anti-British sentiment in 1949, Cooke observed: "Senator Kem of Missouri . . . has never constituted a rising tide...
...most part the sketches are excellent fun. There are some good songs, including "General Effect," "Knock Wood," and "Coo Coo Jug Jug." Toward the middle of the second act there is a barren stretch of four dull and sometimes insipid numbers that Director Walter Crisham could cut with no trouble. Without them the show would move quickly all the way, and would come closer to a reasonable length...