Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When President Conant gave the annual Terry Lectures in New Haven last May, he provided Yale men with an unprecedented coming-attractions view of a new Harvard course. Based on the Terry Lectures, "On Understanding Science" in form is an argument for a new kind of science course for laymen, a course which President Conant calls "a tremendous extrapolation from any educational experiments of which I am aware...
...book, "On Understanding Science" is admirably concise and clear, and even a complete scientific ignoramus can come very close to understanding all the technical material it contains. This simplicity is the outstanding literary value of "On Understanding Science." Combined with the book's provocative argument, it makes the initial combination of Conant the educator with Conant the scientist a work of considerably wider popular interest than the majority...
...Government to blame? Harry Truman jumped into the argument. His hands were not spotless. He had encouraged Labor to clamor for higher wages after V-J day. At the same time, he tried to keep prices hammer-locked. The paradox stalled production. Like most politicians, he had bowed before the sacred idol of support for farm prices, which would keep a floor under food costs until...
...Chosen Instrument. When Patterson supported Trippe, the other domestic lines went after him like a flock of hawks. But Patterson has stuck to his guns. The current U.S. policy of regulated competition, on international routes, says he, will not work. He has some claim to impartiality in the argument. United was-and is-the only big U.S. line that does not want to do any large-scale international flying...
...purely speculative. . . . In the popular mind it all reduced itself to the choice between the authoritarian regime of Vichy and the heroic crusade of De Gaulle. But unless one can demonstrate that De Gaulle and his movement could have contributed more effectively to American interests . . . the whole argument against our policy falls flat...