Word: researched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salesgirl telling a customer: "Your figure is nonstandard, and you won't find anything for yourself." The next 20 customers were likewise nonstandard. The Central Institute of the Garment Industry's explanation: the State Planning Commission has failed to give cutters proper guidance because the Scientific Research Institute of Anthropology has failed to supply it with proper statistical data on the sizes and shapes of the Soviet people. Another cause of all the trouble, added Izvestia: up until recently, the clothing industry has been headed by a lumber expert...
Half in jest, the American Miscellaneous Society (AMSOC) was "founded" by alphabet-weary scientists at the Office of Naval Research in 1952. AMSOC has about 50 members, but no records, dues, laws or officers; its meetings have been held at Washington cocktail parties with a two-member quorum. Typical agenda item: how to tow Antarctic icebergs north and melt them to irrigate Southern California. But in science the impractical can turn practical overnight with a little cash behind it. In Scientific American this week, Geologist Willard Bascom published the first full report of a onetime AMSOC daydream, which...
...comic-book rack. Even the questions from readers were formidable: What is truth? What is justice? What is love? The columnist's name and title were enough to send Smilin' Jack fans into a tailspin: Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, director of the Institute of Philosophical Research. Yet the column has pulled 150 letters a week since it began appearing last October. This month the Sun-Times will syndicate Philosopher Adler in the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle and the Washington Star...
Poor Man's Plato. The new assignment has been added to a schedule already strained. Six days a week Adler, 56, disappears into a 55-year-old Pacific Heights mansion in San Francisco, headquarters for the Institute of Philosophical Research. Behind this imposing title and façade, Adler and six fellow brains have spent seven years patiently sifting the "Great Ideas" of the ages (by Adler's classification, 102), seeking to mold their meaning into patterns intelligible to all men. At the institute's rate of progress (their first "Great Idea," freedom, is half explored...
...microwaves caused "intolerable" heating of the man's tissues. Biologist John H. Heller doubted this explanation, suspected that the microwaves had somehow fatally altered the body's cells. To find out, he began experimenting with lower-powered radio waves at the New England Institute for Medical Research in Ridgefield, Conn. Last week in Britain's Nature, he and Dr. A. A. Teixeira-Pinto reported that their experiments had provided "a new physical method" for manipulating cells and their contents, including the all-important chromosomes in the nucleus...