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  • Julius Rosenberg send non-atomic secrets to Russia but the government framed Ethel to get to Julius.

    Easter Lemming Liberal News 2008

  • Three views current in the literature on the status of non-atomic, or complex, bodies are:

    Substance Robinson, Howard 2004

  • Her husband was a very active agent, mostly on non-atomic matters.

    The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America The Stalin Era 1999

  • And what emerges from the files is that Ethel Rosenberg, who does not even have a code name -- and Julius Rosenberg, matter of fact; he was engaged in espionage, mostly non-atomic -- Ethel Rosenberg appears to have known what her husband was doing, appears to have maybe met a

    The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America The Stalin Era 1999

  • ELINT is electronics intelligence, defined as electromagnetic radiators with a non-atomic origin.

    The Ears of America Powers, Thomas 1983

  • In other words, we shall have a non-atomic body composed of atoms, which conclusion is absurd.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • Views of Electricity_, states that "Aether is made up of positive and negative electricity," then, unless we postulate atomicity for the aether, we have to suppose that it is possible for a non-atomic body

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • Of course with a frictionless and non-atomic Aether such a result would be an impossibility, but with our conception of an atomic and gravitative Aether the result is now attainable.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • Replace, however, the non-atomic Aether as at present recognized, by an atomic and gravitating Aether, and then Huyghens 'exposition or principle stands out in all its simplicity and clearness, and finds in an atomic

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • If, on the other hand, the Aether is assumed to be continuous and non-atomic, it must be seen how exceedingly difficult it is to account for the elasticity of the Aether, as it seems absolutely impossible for a medium which is continuous, and non-atomic, to be able to transmit the waves of light with a finite velocity.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

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