Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astronomer Fritz Zwicky has a more ambitious scheme: an interplanetary reclamation project. Using his new tool, nuclear energy, man could improve the circumstances of underprivileged planets, change their atmosphere or even relocate them in more favorable orbits...
Other interstellar enthusiasts favor taking short cuts through the fourth dimension. The best way to visualize this scheme is to imagine "two-dimensional people" who spend their lives on the surface of a sheet of paper, and who cannot form any conception of the three-dimensional world. If the paper were bent into a deep U, they could not cut across from one edge to the other; they would have to go around the fold...
Having emphasized that a systematically consistent world-scheme is not a necessary requirement for his understanding of science, Conant carries this idea to other fields of inquiry. There is no reason, he claims, to have one world hypothesis to explain all human endeavors either. We should build working hypotheses for each fragment of knowledge in order to have guides to action...
...everybody who imports a woman for a major weekend like Yale or Crimson Key meets the same end as Pumley. But the haphazard rooming scheme for out-of town dates causes many headaches and unnecessary waste of time. If one files a reservation weeks in advance and can afford it, he might get a room at one of the hotels. Otherwise, he can seek out the tourist homes on the PBH housing list, or try to convince a hospitable Radcliffe girl to take in a houseguest...
...University prefers the first scheme, and what with the tradition and the money bound up in the School, it is not difficult to see why. It's not impossible, says the Administration, pointing to the tailoring job it accomplished on the School of Education. There, by shifting the curriculum from a teachers training affair to the study of school administration, it both shriveled costs to manageable proportions and maintained the School's high rank in educational circles. Why not do the same with Divinity...