Word: diversionism
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Quick to create a diversion was smart, Harvard-graduated Dr. Soong, fresh from representing China at the World Economic Conference, after which he called on President Roosevelt. With appropriate fanfare Dr. Soong published a Government decree creating an NEC (National Economic Council) declared to be "modeled on the NRA."
To watch Johnny, 17 mos. old. roller-skating through the corridors of Manhattan's Babies Hospital, dressed only in a diaper and shoes, is that institution's favorite daily diversion. Johnny has been roller-skating since last April, which was before his first birthday. He now boldly coasts...
Obscured in the world Press, as other scientific meetings have been this year by financial and political events, was the 102nd meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, last week at Leicester, England. Yet the Leicester meeting presented many a useful fact and theory. Science v. Work...
At least one of the features that makes Harvard an intellectually stimulating college persists in the Summer School. A variety of programs, lectures, concerts, and entertainment lighten the summer, and this year more than ever before diversion of a high calibre has been brought to students without expense.
The nearest-yet imitation of human vision appeared at Chicago last week when Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of RCA Victor Co., one of the nation's foremost practical physicists, presented his iconoscope to the Institute of Radio Engineers. The iconoscope or "image observer" is for television use when John...