Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia's former Governor William M. Tuck followed Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd in saying that he could not endorse the Democratic national ticket. ¶Physicist Albert Einstein said Stevenson would get his vote because "I trust his integrity, judgment and intelligence." Syndicated Columnist Dorothy Thompson announced she would vote for Eisenhower "against Truman and Trumanism." ¶Arkansas' third largest afternoon paper, the Pine Bluff Commercial, broke an 84-year-old precedent, came out for Eisenhower, explained to its readers that it wasn't "whole hog" Republican-only "just...
Safe No. Foreign scientists, all friendly to the U.S., add their protests, and say that the McCarran Act has already damaged U.S. prestige. Says Physicist M. Louis Leprince Ringuet of France: "I have even had occasion to see the expression 'Iron Curtain of the West' applied quite widely to the U.S." Says Professor M. L. Oliphant of Australia, who was refused a visa although he was a key man in the U.S. atom bomb project: "At times I feel very bitter about the situation, since I believe that, in the fields of radar and atomic energy, I have...
...worth a thousand words: it is a sound film in which no one ever speaks. The movie manages to get along quite well without dialogue because it is an uncomplicated chase thriller told with the camera on a simple physical and psychological level. The thief is a nuclear physicist (Ray Milland) employed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, where he is microfilming top secret documents for a foreign spy ring. When the FBI gets on his trail, he flees to New York, kills a Government agent in a chase to the top of the Empire State Building, and is about...
...fortnight ago, at the mouth of a huge bottle-shaped abyss near the Spanish frontier in the Pyrenees, Loubens and twelve other Belgian, French and British spelunkers! led by famed Belgian Physicist Max Cosyns, set out to break their own record. Their wives, resigned to indulging their husbands' odd vacation hobby, stayed together at a nearby hotel...
Dave, a philosophy major, now says he thought ruefully as he fell of the Greek concept of hubris-the Icarus complex that drives men to overweening aspirations. Being a practical physicist, Jim sank his ax handle in the solid snow and held on for dear life...