While people expected elements with higher atomic number to form from neutron bombardment of lighter elements, nobody expected neutrons to have enough energy to actually split a heavier atom into two light element fragments, and it was thought still more unlikely that slow neutrons could accomplish such a task.

Near the end of the siege of Kimberley, it was expected that the Boers would intensify their bombardment, so Rhodes displayed a notice encouraging people to go down into shafts of the Kimberley Mine for protection.

The main body of TF Hammer reached its pre-assault point around 06: 15 and waited for the expected " 55 minute " aerial bombardment of enemy positions.

On their way in and 60 minutes before they were expected to land a heavy artillery bombardment started.

Development continued during the inter-war era, although at a more limited pace as aircraft were expected to take over in the long-range bombardment role.

On December 6, he had sent half of the bomber force 800 miles south to Mindanao, but anticipating the imminent arrival from the United States of a second bombardment group, left the other half at Clark to make room for the expected reinforcements on the more distant airfield.

Reconstruction of these three lines began in 2005 and is expected to be completed by the end of the year 2012.

The AMD / USD exchange rate depreciated by 6. 1 percent in the first three quarters of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009, before it began to show the expected end-of-the-year appreciation.

The mid-1950s saw the rapid introduction of diesel and electric rolling stock but the expected transfer back from road to rail did not occur and losses began to mount.

The trials began in 1960 about the time the original requirement expected the weapon to be in service.

A third census, expected to take years to produce results, began on November 11, 2005, with a three-week interviewing phase.

After a disappointing back to back seasons of 83-79 records ( 2004 and 2005 ) which were expected to be seasons of contention by the Marlins along with failed attempts to get state financing for a new ballpark, the team began a controversial dumping of players for prospects.

Britain and France declared war and World War II began – somewhat sooner than the Nazis expected or were ready for.

Construction of a new Terminal 2 complex to replace the old terminal building and adjacent Queen's Building began in 2009 with the first phase expected to open in 2014.

In 1946, another of Zahir Shah's uncles, Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan, became Prime Minister and began an experiment allowing greater political freedom, but reversed the policy when it went further than he expected.

As the new settlement in Indiana grew, it also began to attract new arrivals, including emigrants from Germany, who expected the Harmonists to pay for their passage to America.

Landis held hearings in late January 1915, and newspapers expected a quick decision, certainly before spring training began in March.

In order to distance himself from the criticism he expected from following Tezuka's form, he consciously developed his own style, but was unable to fully shake Tezuka's influence off until he began studying animation.

The rail service from Mazar-e Sharif to Uzbekistan that began in 2011 is expected to rapidly boost the economy of the city.

The first objects to become visible as the dust began to settle, the tops of the Tharsis volcanoes, demonstrated that the altitude of these features greatly exceeded that of any mountain found on Earth, as astronomers expected.

The primary season began with U. S. Senator Tom Harkin winning his native Iowa as expected.

As part of the Heart of Slough project, construction work on a new bus station began in March 2010 following weeks of demolition work to half of the existing bus station and the removal of Compair House near the railway station ; it is expected to be completed by January 2011.

The trial began in 2010 and is expected to continue until 2014.

Work began, but Mr Hoare's death in a railway accident left the college £ 3000 short of his expected benefaction.

On 14 July, Bering's party began their first exploration, hugging the coast in not a northerly direction ( as they had expected ) but a north-easterly one.

Repair work began in March 2009 and was expected to take only a few weeks but the entire site was instead closed in May 2009 due to the risk of falling masonry.

Clarendon's enemy, Lord Arlington, became the favourite of the king and began to cooperate with the king's brother James, Duke of York, the Lord High Admiral, in order to bring about war with the Dutch, from which both expected great personal gain.

Their rivalry began to truly develop after Rafter shocked the tennis world by winning the 1997 US Open, a tournament that many expected Sampras to win, having won in 1995 and 1996.

Construction began in 2010 and is expected to be completed by 2015.

Caligula began his first year as emperor in 38, and there was a severe conflict between him and Seneca ; the emperor is said to have spared his life only because he expected Seneca's natural life to be near its end.

He was laughed at by the council, and the planet began to break apart sooner than he expected anyway, leaving him only with a small test rocket, in which he and Lara placed Kal-El and his red-and-blue blankets.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.

Lewis had expected to report at once to Jones's and Nassau's naval command post.

The scientists have also warned that no life above ground or underground, sheltered or unsheltered could be expected to survive in an area at least 50 miles in diameter.

The long-range objective of this Department is to provide and maintain a system of forest development roads and trails which will adequately service the National Forest System at the levels needed to meet expected needs and optimum production of products and services.

Miss Demon Abbe, p, 1:59.3 has trotted in 2:26, and is expected to race at this gait ; ;

The observed intensity of the radio emission of Venus is much higher than the expected thermal intensity, although the spectrum indicated by measurements at wave lengths near 3 cm and 10 cm is like that of a black body at about 600-degrees.

No attempts to measure the radio emission of the remaining planets have been reported, and, because of their distances, small diameters, or low temperatures, the thermal radiation at radio wave lengths reaching the earth from these sources is expected to be of very low intensity.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing, expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years, and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement, each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion, for this particular epiphysis.

Each card is expected to show certain information about the individual concerned, including his or her date of birth ( or age at a specified time ), spouses, and children.

From here they proceeded to ( 3 ) These same areas in relation to their own future family life stages, developing these to the extent of examining various crises which could be expected to confront them at some time or other.

It is obvious that such an influence can only be expected in the final stage of an image intensifier at rather high output levels.

As might be expected, girls in this situation bleed very little and perhaps not at all in the process of losing their virginity.

Alec expected an indignant denial, but there was no response at all.

But if all alternatives should be clearly blocked off, it can be expected the Davis administration will take steps to trim spending at the spring session of the state Legislature.

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

With Skorich at the helm, the Eagles are expected to put more emphasis on running, rather than passing.

Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.

With cash receipts from marketings expected to be slightly above 1960, farmers' gross income is estimated at $39.5 billion, $1.5 billion above 1960's record high.

More than 200 are expected at the autumn event which is matched in the spring.

More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.

Further improvements in earnings of the Kansas Turnpike are expected late in 1961, with the opening of a new bypass at Wichita, and still later when the turnpike gets downtown connections in both Kansas City, Kans., and Kansas City, Mo..