Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heretofore, the inquisitive layman has been forced to stand in awe outside the wooden fence, listening mystified to the dull roar of the great machine. Now, for the first time, he will be able to find out just what is going on inside by reading "Why Smash Atoms?" by Arthur K. Soloman, research associate in Physics and Chemistry, which will be published tomorrow by the Harvard University Press...
...died. It is the appropriate testament of a man who made his scholarship useful (as editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, The Bible Designed to be Read as Living Literature). Badly titled, American Faith bears no resemblance whatever to a Fourth of July oration. It is the best layman's history of U. S. Protestantism yet published; it is also an illuminating interpretation of early U. S. democracy. Its thesis: "Democracy did not arise out of 18th Century political and industrial conflicts, as a momentarily popular view misconceives. Its roots are to be found in the attempted revival...
Until a few years ago linen rags were the only base for cigaret tissues. Then chemists made what seemed to many a layman an obvious discovery-that the rag stage could be bypassed and tissue could be made direct from flax. To U. S. flax farmers, principally in Minnesota, California and North Dakota, this means that Ecusta alone will take the crop from 75,000 to 100,000 acres. If other U. S. cigaret paper makers complete the switch from rag base to flax, farmers of another 75,000 to 100,000 acres will have found a market for their...
...layman's eye, Ethyl Gasoline Corp. is pretty nearly an ideal business.*About 70% of all gasoline consumed in the U. S. is Ethyl-treated. The company does not make tetraethyl lead (Du Pont does); doesn't extract bromine from sea water for ethylene dibromide (Dow Chemical Co. does); does not make gasoline nor sell it (123 refiners, 11,000 jobbers...
...author calls the book "a light book about heavy reading," and it really is aimed more at the layman than at the scholar. He has given up the idea of reforming education through working on the scholar and hopes that the desired change will come about by making the non-academic person better educated than the scholar...