Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That took care of the "applied v. basic" question. In regard to the military, Dr. Bush was no less reassuring: "A [much discussed] danger [is] that there will be overemphasis on military aspects of science . . . since federal funds are flowing from the military services into basic research. This system, however, is undoubtedly a temporary...
...they plead that funds should flow through civil, not military channels. Apparently Bush stands with them...
Department of Science. At present Vannevar Bush is the nearest thing to a U.S. Secretary of Science. He is chairman of the JRDB (Joint Research and Development Board), which has power over the billion dollars or so a year which the armed services are spending on research. This enormous sum has already become the dominant factor in U.S. science...
Primary job of the JRDB is to eliminate unhealthy research competition among the services, avoid waste effort. But it can also discourage "weaponeering" in favor of basic work which may prove valuable in peace as well as in war. Scientists could hope that the Board, with Bush at its head, would not drown in military money the free spirit of U.S. science...
...adolescence, when responsibilities are at a minimum and chastity unusual. But soon come marriage and pregnancy. A common ceremony is the "couvade": the pregnant woman ignores her condition as best she can, while the husband secludes himself, sticks to a careful diet. At last the woman creeps into the bush, delivers her baby secretly. The husband screams in pain...