Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backer Field, a Harvardman, Navy veteran and father of two, was divorced last month. "He is interested," said Editor Mullen, "in doing something constructive about family life." Speaking for himself, Field said: "I'm interested in American Family primarily as an experiment. It's an attempt to get...
Yeagley began with the idea, not original with him, that a homing pigeon is equipped with some sort of "magnetic compasses," i.e , some sensitivity to the earth's magnetism. Yeagley tested this notion by fastening small magnets to the wings of well-trained pigeons. Confused by their own magnetism...
Away from Home. To test this theory, Yeagley trained hundreds of pigeons to return to their home roosts at State College, Pennsylvania. When they were thoroughly indoctrinated, he took them to a part of Nebraska where the lines representing the earth's magnetism happen to cross the parallels of...
At Brookhaven, L.I., a dragline excavator manned by a nuclear physicist broke ground last week for the first chain-reacting pile to be built in the U.S. in peacetime.* Financed by a $10 million Government appropriation, it will be the heart of the great Brookhaven National Laboratory, to be built...
But by last week the teachers had decided that it was worth it. Next summer, they thought, they might try the experiment again. They even had reason to hope that the nations which had sent no students-Russia, Rumania, Poland, Yugoslavia-might be willing (and able) to fold back the...