Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr last week took cognizance of the Kinsey Report. Like many another churchman, he found Scientist Kinsey's point of view toward sex "distressing"-even more so than the sad state of U.S. morals it indicated...
...large, airy Comedor Popular (people's dining room)* off the Plaza Espana, in Caracas, diners smacked their lips over a favorite dish: rice and black beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain...
...those convicted on Gouzenko's evidence, eight are behind bars: ex-M.P. Fred Rose in St. Vincent de Paul, near Montreal; the others in Kingston Penitentiary, where all are rated as "reformable" under the prison grading system. In Britain, Scientist Dr. Allan Nunn May is in prison (ten years), but British officials will not say where...
...A.S.C. asked the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Denver to find out, by the most approved and careful methods, what its scientist members think about the whole question of "security," loyalty checks and Government service. According to the research center's report, most of them agree that some sort of "security clearance procedures" are necessary. But they believe that a scientist accused of disloyalty or "un-Americanism" should be given an opportunity to defend himself...
Whether or not the social scientist is pulling on a string with nothing attached to the end formed the basis for disagreement between Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, in their discussion on "The Strategy of the Social Sciences...