Word: popper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When an Army paratrooper steps out into space, he knows that the sudden blossoming of his parachute will rattle his bones, strain his joints, and for a breathless moment, make him feel like the popper on a bull whip. At worst, an opening shock snaps a paratrooper so violently that he blacks out, sometimes even causes heavy objects such as hand grenades to burst right through the pockets of his sturdy jump suit...
...Birdzell jumped, clawing for his own revolver. The guard bolted instinctively for the street-partly to draw the gunman's fire away from the President's quarters, partly to leave a clear field for the Tommy gunner behind the door. Then hell's own corn popper began to grind in front of Blair-Lee House...
...fourth in a series of lectures on scientific methods and their application to society will be given this application to society will be given this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in Emerson D by Kari R. Popper, Professor of Logic and Scientific method at the University of London...
...good failure in science is always respectable," commented Popper. "The scientist who has taken the bold leap and has been proven wrong is no failure in the ordinary sense of the word...
...Popper added that the Cartesian view, which conceives of success in science as contingent solely upon employing the correct method, is false, and that this attitude leads to what he considers an unhealthy organization of state scientific research...