Word: personally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best popular scientific literature is written by scientists who having a command of their subject to begin with, learn to express their thoughts in prose clear and simple enough that the average person can understand it; in short, they successfully "write down" to their reader. Possibly the worst science writing is the reverse of this process; a journalists or some other unqualified commentator "writes up" to a subject, trying to explain to the reader something that he himself only vaguely understands. In "Cancer", Bewa Doherty attempts just such a feat and fails rather miserably...
...basketball court, etc. The supreme purpose of non-professional sports is the enjoyment of the ballplayers, whether he wins or loses, whether he is talented or not. A simple example of the conflict between the ballplayer's and the spectator's enjoyment is that of the crippled person, by definition less talented, who gets more enjoyment out of sports than the healthy persons, all other things being equal, for obvious reasons...
...secret proceedings of a Grand Jury? . . . Would the editors deprive an applicant for a government position ... of their endorsement? Does the editorial admonition mean that Harper's advocates protecting a foreign agent against the security of the U.S. ... Does Harper's advocate the view that a person decline to furnish facts to an investigator that would establish the innocence of a person unjustly accused? Does Harper's believe that the government of the U.S. should employ members of the Ku Klux Klan or of the Communist Party, by urging persons possessing such information not to communicate...
...Wallach calls Montaigne 'the great skeptic.' A skeptic of any kind is bad enough. A great skeptic is the last person I would go to on a question of such great importance-my eternal salvation...
...said that Social Science polls have a responsibility to people in a democracy which must never be abused. Allport added, however, that sometimes anonymity must be qualified. This is particularly necessary where the same person must be polled at separate intervals, and his two sets of answers correlated...