Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enrollments, long presidential tenures, professor-administrators, and the "publish or perish" theory. On the credit side, he thinks that the high schools are better than they were thirty years ago. He debunks the professors who deplore the lack of pre-college preparation, and correctly declares that all the non-scientist college entrant needs is the ability to read and write competent English...
...eight by taking news items over the telephone for his father, a country publisher in Lisbon, Me. He joined the 17-year-old Monitor after graduation from Bates College in 1925, became the Monitor's managing editor at 37, its editor in 1945. A Christian Scientist who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, Canham is one of journalism's busiest men. Besides editing the Monitor, he writes a column on international affairs, moderates a weekly TV program in Boston called Starring the Editors. He also heads Columbia University's National Manpower Council, advises the Government on information work...
...Harvard Medical School scientist has made an experiment which may provide clues to understanding the functions of cell membranes in the body...
Charles Willson Peale, portraitist, scientist and revolutionary idealist, had the same expansive spirit as his good friend Thomas Jefferson. He raised his children to be geniuses, saw them more or less painfully sink to the level of ordinary men and women. Young Raphaelle found solace, as he sank, in parlor games, ventriloquism, a pretty shrew of a wife, his art, and the bottle. He turned restlessly to science. He patented a preservative for ships' timbers and a system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical...
Huxley was strongly supported by his fellow scientist, Homi J. Bhabha, who heads India's atomic energy projects. Bhabha was not enthusiastic about oral contraceptives, which, he said, cost too much and must be "used systematically and precisely," but "if some substance could be developed that could be mixed in one's daily diet and would have the effect of reducing the chance of conception by about 30%, the problem would be immediately solved." Indian delegates favored voluntary sterilization of all Indian couples with more than three children; the congress itself unanimously advocated sterilization as an effective...