Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Give a scientist a problem, any problem, and he is happy. During the war it was the problem of killing people in greater numbers than ever before. The scientists . . . came up with schemes that military men never dreamed...
...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...
...lamentable fact overlooked by Trud: when reports of Franklin's experiment reached Russia, Russian Scientist Georgy V. Richwan lofted a bigger, more aggressive kite and electrocuted himself...
...University of Wisconsin's Frederic Austin Ogg, 70, tall, shy political scientist, co-author of the widely used Ogg & Ray textbooks on government (total sales: 1,500,000 copies), longtime managing editor of the American Political Science Review, a faculty member for 34 years...
Orator Fosdick, no scientist himself, tried hard to be optimistic: ". . . This telescope can furnish our stricken society with some measure of healing perspective. This great new window to the stars will bring . . . into fresh focus the mystery of the universe, its order, its beauty, its power. ... Adrift in a cosmos whose shores he cannot even imagine, man spends his energies in fighting with his fellow man over issues which a single look through this telescope would show to be utterly inconsequential...