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...show for kids (Sat. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he uses brief, ad lib comment instead of hectoring lectures, everyday objects like balloons and tumblers instead of beakers and fractionating columns, and he would rather conduct his experiments with a potato or a spinning top than with test tubes and Bunsen burners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Truant Teacher | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

Libraries and laboratories alike are swallowing up money like quicksand. Yale is spending $798,000 for books, against $476,000 in 1939; and its scientists, like those of every other institution, have long outgrown their Bunsen burners. A sign of the times is the fact that the University of California's new cyclotron cost $95 million; only the U.S. Government has that kind of money, so the U.S. paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crisis in the Colleges: Can They Pay Their Way? | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...Professor Henry Higgins, a middle-aged bachelor and phonetics expert, takes it upon himself to teach cultured English to a poor flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, and then pass her off as English nobility. For months he drills, cudgels, and bullies her, until "'Enry 'Iggins" becomes "Henry Higgins," and the Bunsen flame in front of Eliza's mouth flickers visibly with every "h." Finally comes the great test, and sweeping a starchy Ambassador's Ball, Eliza waltzes with princes, chats with royalty, and convinces one of the Professor's colleagues that her accent is Hungarian. Afterwards, Eliza accuses Professor Higgins...

Author: By --e. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: Pygmalion | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...delight in chemistry and physics. Julius Oppenheimer-who had begun to consider his son as a kind of public trust-arranged for Klock to give Robert a special, intensive summer course in chemistry. They brought their lunches to the laboratory. While Klock brewed strong tea in beakers over a Bunsen burner, Rbbert turned out "a bushel of work" that never failed to rate the coveted Klock rubber stamp: "OK-AK." In six weeks, Robert completed a year's course. Says Klock: "He was so brilliant that no teacher would have been skillful enough to prevent him from getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...will work at the Institute, in the world's biggest institution for cancer research, showed visiting cancer specialists through the well-equipped laboratories. Said one biologist, who spotted a coffeepot heating over a Bunsen burner: "That's one piece of apparatus we're sure will work." But Dr. Cornelius P. ("Dusty") Rhoads, head of the Institute and of the affiliated Memorial Hospital, was more hopeful. Said he: "No one can predict from what source a major discovery will come. One can predict, however, with absolute certainty, that sound, careful, faithful investigation will justify itself in terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Business | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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