Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world finally will be rid of the linotype, in fact, of movable type. No more shall it be shackled by the Relativity Theory of Einstein, the Quantum Theory of Planck, the Wave Mechanics of Heisenberg. Out with Kekule's theory of molecular structure, Helmholtz's electrodynamics, the chemistry of aniline dyes, etc. Out with microscopes, telescopes, cameras, and other instruments requiring lenses, perfected in Germany, fundamentally of course for military usage. Out with Ehrlich's "Magic Bullet," Mendel's laws of heredity. Finally, but not until our program has been completed, out with the sterilization...
...First-Voter: Albert Einstein of Princeton, former citizen of the Reich, citizen of the U. S. for five weeks...
...have a personal theory that might answer the problem of perpetual motion? Do you think the Einstein theory is cuckoo? Or do you have an idea that will revolutionize anything? Thus last February Los Angeles station KNX announced the advent of What's On Your Mind?, the ultima Thule in audience-participation shows. Since that time the program has spread itself over a CBS Pacific network, more than doubled West Coast sales for its sponsor, Planters Nut & Chocolate Co. Last week it was well ahead of regional rivals, rated more popular on the Coast than such national favorites...
...enterprise. When he retired from G. E. B. in 1928, philanthropists refused to give him peace, implored him to spend their money. At the urging of Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger, Dr. Flexner took $5,000,000 to start the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J., got Albert Einstein to leave Germany to do research at his institute. Last October, having spent all the loose cash in sight, Dr. Flexner finally retired for good...
...Einstein's message was the only false note of the entire conference after its chairman, President Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary, key-noted its aims: "Our failure to harmonize science, philosophy and religion in their true relation to the democratic way of life has been a catastrophe. We must not allow Western civilization, already destroyed in much of Europe, to suffer any further disintegration. We believe that the military struggle in Europe is but one phase of a far greater conflict-the conflict between ideas which make for the development of human civilization and ideas which make...