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...Nucleus of his morale workers was a group of apple-cheeked eupeptic ex-athletes and British students who entered the U.S. on visitors' visas before the war. They have been stumping defense plants with a series of playlets aimed at morale-building and improving labor-management relations by MRA. Mainstay of their repertoire was You Can Defend America (TIME...
...vital nucleus light of our four years...
During the past summer the nucleus of the Freshman Committee handled the Freshman dinners given by each House to help orientate the scattered new class, and also scheduled a dance at Harvard and several get-togethers with Radcliffe and Wellesley...
There have always been courses in the University in which such a combination would have been desirable; the war is only multiplying the number. The most rapacious draft policy will always leave at Harvard a nucleus of deferred students who can do no better than to prepare for the postwar period by acquiring a liberal education. There will be individual courses in which purely masculine enrollment will not be large enough to warrant the Faculty's time and trouble, in which the only alternative to bracketing will be the admission of Radcliffe students. This is not coeducation; it is simply...
...their origin to the American Physical Society, meeting at the University of Chicago. They do not come from outer space as electrons: that would require a million billion electron volts. More probably the original missile from the remote regions of the universe is a proton, a bare hydrogen nucleus moving at terrific velocity with energy of 200 million electron volts. When it strikes the earth's atmosphere it breaks up either by explosion or collision and, like an earthbound skyrocket, forms a spray of smaller particles, called mesotrons. These in turn, colliding with oxygen and nitrogen molecules...