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Comparing the methods of today's and yesterday's researcher, he said that "it is our contention that the way the seventeenth century scientist would grope for what we now consider the basic law is the same way the scientist works today...
Lost in the Dark. When the coastal blackout went into effect in April 1942, no one was forced to grope as much as Doug Leigh. Starting with $50 and a case of mumps at the depth of the depression, he had parlayed his native talents of salesmanship, showmanship and inventiveness into an electrified million-dollar business. He owned or operated the biggest single block of the dazzling and ingeniously animated signs along Broadway, when the lights were turned...
...Leningrad has been suspended, the Writers' Union given a thorough shakeup. A million-ruble movie, The Monogrammed Diary, was spirited away without a trace, after one viewing by the Cinema Ministry. Even the prestigious, semi-official Izvestia was scolded for printing the news straight, leaving the reader "to grope his way through international problems without guidance...
...Administration understand U.S. policy that way? If it did, it had never dared say so. No one yet-outside the military leaders, who are listened to less attentively in times of peace-had made it clear. And so the Navy had to grope...
This was a new room, rich with hope, terrible with strange dangers. The door that slammed behind man at Hiroshima had locked. Life, as always, was irreversible. There was no choice but to grope ahead into the Atomic...