Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of Margery's adherents forswore their allegiance after that, but others remained faithful. Psychologist Henry Clay McComas of Johns Hopkins University, whose hobby is exposing mediums, gathered two distinguished colleagues, a physicist and another psychologist, and journeyed to Boston to make a scientific report on a Margery seance. They were allowed to feel "ectoplasmic rods" supposedly sprouting from her thighs, but came to the conclusion afterwards that the rods were animal intestines stuffed with cotton and stiffened with wire...
...devout man, like his colleagues Robert Andrews Millikan, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Albert Einstein, is Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton. Irreverent University of Chicago students nickname the beetle-browed physicist "Holy." Even more than most scientists he participates in the institutional activities of religion; as deacon of Hyde Park Baptist...
Church in Chicago, as chairman of the University's Board of Social Science and Religion, as a Y. M. C. A. worker. This, not merely because he was brought up in a churchly home - his father was a minister, his mother a missionary worker -but because Physicist Compton thought through, over a number of years, to a belief in God and in man's free will in "glimpsing God's purpose in nature and sharing that purpose." Last week Dr. Compton embarked upon further, and wider, institutional activities. He accepted the Protestant chairmanship of the National Conference...
...Ogden's invention of an 850-word vocabulary called Basic English. Indicative of the complexity of semantics is the fact that while Ogden is an orthologist and psychologist and Richards is an esthetician, important contributions have been made by a Polish mathematician, Count Alfred Korzybski, and a Harvard physicist, Percy Williams Bridgman. Semantics ranges from the equator of Basic English through the lush tropics of political bunkum to the North Pole of James Joyce's word-coining...
...observation that current would pass in only this one direction through the tube was first put to work thirty years ago by J. A. Fleming, an English physicist, who saw a possible use for this feature in the detection and rectifying of radio signals, then being pioneered by Marconi...