Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lighter than protons but heavier than electrons, and both positively and negatively charged (TIME, Nov. 29, 1937). Drs. Jabez Curry Street and Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard also vouched for the existence of this queer entity. At first there seemed to be no place for it in the physical scheme. Then it was recalled that the Japanese physicist, Yukawa, had postulated the existence of just such a thing to help explain energy exchanges in the atomic nucleus. In honor of Yukawa, there is a tendency in Europe to call the particles yukons. The name barytron ("heavy particle") is gaining favor...
...abroad. It has in effect applauded the humanitarian ideal of the Undergraduate Committee, and this must be remembered when in the future the occasion arises to defend Harvard liberalism. The number of the scholarships appears to be sensible; it approves assistance without basing assistance on an impractical and overemotional scheme; it condemns the Nazis with caution. Moreover, it points the course for other colleges in this country to pursue. For a widespread assertion of our faith in human tolerance the colleges must unite in the raising of funds to care for students fleeing a barbarous dictatorship. Then, Harvard's endeavor...
Hutchins commends a plan of former President Lowell to allow each sport only one game a season, and that one to be with the college's natural rival, as can be seen in England in the cases of Oxford and Cambridge. He declared: "Mr. Lowell's scheme might have the merit of enabling students and the public to work off their seasonal frenzy in one big saturnalia...
...last famine, in 1933, was caused by peasant opposition to Dictator Stalin's collectivization program. The present agricultural difficulties seem to be caused: 1) by the chaotic conditions in the much-purged Commissariat of Agriculture; 2) by an attempt to impose on recalcitrant farmers a crop-alternating scheme...
...apologized and explained that, the night before, he stayed up until 6 o'clock in the morning-he attended a conference. Before coming to him, we went to see the chief of our department; he was sleepy, too, and for the same reason.' " The crop-rotation scheme, Izvestia revealed, is no nearer realization now than it was in the spring, and Sotsialisticheskoe Zemledelie (Socialist Agriculture} gave a ready explanation for the delay: the "enemies of the people" formerly in charge of the Commissariat made a hit-or-miss job out of allotting land to the collective farms...