Word: layman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sending mail by rocket to the moon ($25 a letter). It even offers a relaxing bit of science fiction ("The liquid blonde girl came toward him, smiling . . ."). The slick-paper Space Journal is flawed by wooden pictures, text that sometimes strays too far ahead of or behind the layman, and an overexposure of Huntsville's Spaceman Wernher von Braun. But it already shows improvement. For future numbers it has lined up articles from such experts as Air Force Balloonist Lt. Col. David Simons and Dr. Eugen Sanger. director of West Germany's Institute of Jet Propulsion Physics...
...member of the board of directors of the Bank of Manhattan, Continental Oil Co. and more than a dozen other large industrial and financial corporations. Wartime ("dollar-a-year") special assistant to the administrator of the lend-lease program, later director of its British Empire branch, prominent Roman Catholic Layman Griffin was longtime (1947-57) president of the English-Speaking Union and co-chairman of the American Fund...
...handled with great delicacy; here assertion becomes action--action which might destroy the necessary confidence. I have found Dr. Farnsworth's book most sensible and even wise. But although, as a teacher, I have had some experience with emotional troubles in students, still I speak only as a layman. I will therefore urge your readers to withhold any judgement on this book until they read it for themselves, and to ignore Mr. Jencks' highly irresponsible statements...
...practitioner took one extreme position: "A doctor's justified in refusing at any time he doesn't want to serve the patient. We're no more obligated to give service than is the grocer." A Michigan M.D. replied: "Nothing about medicine is as impressive to the layman as our willingness to get up and go out at midnight. Doctors must maintain their reputation on this score...
...absence of footnotes in this book is misleading, however. This is not a book for the layman. Familiarity with Michel's Iron Law of Oligarchy is essential if one is to negotiate the complexities of Parkinson's cogent argumentation and meaningful insights...