Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star student at the Whampoa Military Academy, will be able to mass some 250,000 Red troops for a southward thrust at Peiping and General Fu Tso-yi's North China corridor. Unless Fu can get substantial reinforcements, the fall of North China will be merely a question of Communist convenience...
...stamped out. But Dr. Robert H. Pollitzer, 63, who has spent 27 years fighting plague in China, is quite cheerful about getting it under control, even there. Said he: "There are optimists and pessimists in this plague-fighting business. I am an optimist ... It is not any more a question of looking for effective methods. It's just a case of applying them." Dr. Pollitzer, who works for U.N.'s World Health Organization, last week started work in the University of California's George Williams Hooper Foundation in San Francisco, where he will spend his three months...
...always. In Washington, D.C., Oppenheimer once interrupted a lecture by a slow-moving ex-pupil: "Well, really, this room is full of people who know the answer to this question. Let's get on." *This view does not sit well with many scientists -- among them Nobel Prizewinner Percy Bridgman, Oppenheimer's ol'd Harvard teacher. Says Bridgman: "If anybody should feel guilty, it's God. He put the facts there...
Answers Before Questions. Oppenheimer was tolerated only because his brilliance was as evident as his impatience. (Says CalTech's Professor Charles Lauritsen: "The man was unbelievable! He always gave you the right answer before you formulated the question.") Gradually and painfully, coached by colleagues and profiting by errors, Oppenheimer learned to put a checkrein on his galloping mind, to raise his voice, and to save, his sarcasms for showoffs and frauds.* In time, Cal and CalTech realized that Oppenheimer (like Whitehead and Bridgman) was "a man to whom you could be an apprentice." By 1939, "Oppie" (as his apprentices...
Wrap It Up. His attitude toward his new job was characteristic: "I regard it as a very open question whether the Institute is an important place, and whether my coming will be of benefit." By last week, he had answered the first half of the question to his own satisfaction...