Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true importance in the national scene, allowing only an incidental word for the city as a port, a marketplace, a tourist center, as a "fountain spout" of culture, finding time for no mention at all of its place as a national center of music, higher education, medical research, managerial leadership, publishing, or the American tradition of human rights...
...They fear that they will be cast as the real villains of a World War III. This fear is well founded. Last week an anonymous* article in the Christian Century blasted the scientists as "modern mercenaries" who will serve any master, however evil, that helps them in their research...
...Scientists," writes "One of Them," "are the mercenaries of modern warfare. Almost wholly devoid of humanitarian impulses, they consider their cold and analytical search for scientific knowledge more important than any current affairs of mere mortals. If a scientist is given a chance to pursue his line of research unmolested, he doesn't care about the type of government he is working under, or the condition of the people, or anything else. Science is the thing, not people...
...must have "spent at least three years in active practice* as a physician or surgeon." The House wanted to make it ten years; that would have barred most of the experts who have spent their lives in the U.S. Public Health Service, in state health departments, in public health research...
Slaughterhouse or Survival? "The towering enemy of man is not his science but his moral inadequacy. Around the world today, laboratories . . . are feverishly pushing their research in the development of physical and bacteriological weapons which overnight could turn this planet into a gigantic slaughterhouse...