Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientist's education and responsibilities. There is nothing new here. From such diverse sources as the General Education Report and the Smyth Report on Atomic Energy, the growing need for some sort of mass comprehension of science has been iterated and reiterated. When President Conant concludes that the layman can best understand science through its tactics and strategy, rather than by means of "even the basic principles or simplest facts," he moves closer to uncharted territory. This approach, President Conant believes, will show the walls and moats around any advance in science, how these hazards can delay scientific progress...
...Experience for Layman...
...Dewey, 51, executive director of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles* and economic consultant to such companies as Air Reduction Co., Inc.-who supplied the data; and Edwin F. Dakin, biographer (Mrs. Eddy) and public-relations man for planemakers, steelmakers and shipbuilders-who put it into readable, layman language...
Educator, scientist, and author, President Conant has set out to introduce the realm of science to the layman in his book, "On Understanding Science," to be published Tuesday by the Yale University Press...
Bolles brought the Washington system to the Charles, one he learned from Callow, who in turn coached under the crew-great Hiram Conibear. Reluctantly, Bolles has tried to summarize the system for the layman. "Our stroke is a short body swing," he says; but he adds that the shortness is only relative to length used by oarsmen such as those at Syracuse...