Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most popularizers of science operate on the hopeful theory that anything, no matter how complex, can be reduced to terms a layman can understand. Radio hardly ever bothers...
...atomic explosive is made is one of the world's most closely guarded secrets. But the fundamental principle behind it can be understood by any layman...
...days after the Third Fleet unlimbered its mightiest guns against Hitachi (see above), Marianas-based 6-295 dropped hundreds of tons of fire bombs on the same city (industrial area: three square miles). To the layman this might have looked like coordination between Navy and Air. Not so. The airmen frankly admitted that they had not even waited for the Navy's damage reports: Hitachi had long been on their list of targets and they had bombed it regardless of what Halsey's guns might have done...
Albert Einstein, whose relativity theory is commonly supposed to be beyond the grasp of plain citizens, wrote a layman's "explanation" in 1916. Excerpt...
...with the Army & Navy hospitals at which sick and wounded World War II servicemen are first treated) give "deteriorated service." There were cries of "cruelty," "red tape," "politics." Some said the trouble was that the Veterans' Affairs Administrator, honest, efficient, but hidebound Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, a layman, tries to prescribe the medical treatment for the 72,000 veterans in his care-a number being swelled by 8,000 World War II veterans a month...