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Under the direction of James MacDonald and "Poley" Guyda, both former professionals and Olympic players, Varsity and Freshman teams each year materialize and generally pile up creditable records. Last year's Freshman soccer team lost one game in eleven...
...spite of multiple obstacles, the Germans almost achieved a working pile. Their experimental models, made of uranium plates separated by heavy water, got better & better...
There they built a pile that almost worked. "On April 22," says Heisenberg, "Haigerloch was occupied, and the material confiscated by the Americans...
...other possibility was to construct a chain-reacting pile made of uranium combined with some substance to slow down the neutrons shot out by its fissioning atoms. Theory indicated that carbon or heavy water would serve as this "moderator." The U.S. used carbon (graphite), but the Germans decided it would not do. This was a bad mistake; it led them to use heavy water, which could be produced only by a slow and costly process...
...time was running out. The Germans' only heavy water plant, in Norway, was destroyed by Commandos and bombing when only two tons of the vital water had been produced. Air raids slowed Germany's industry, disrupted her communications. The pile-builders never got all the uranium they needed. They were forced to work in cellars and air-raid shelters. In 1945, they took refuge in a dugout hewn in the rock near the village of Haigerloch, about 32 miles from Stuttgart...