Word: empiricism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stands at Gainesville was a fan, Bob Post, who has lately described Big Daddy in print as a "crafty empiric." (It was empiricism when Garlits, recovering in the hospital from his transmission troubles, concluded that drag racing would be safer, and also faster, if the engine were behind the driver rather than in front--a crazy idea that is now standard.) Post edits Technology and Culture and is also a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. The fine points of dragster design have moved him to write: "I have found no human artifact that pleases me more than an earthshaking, fire...