Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cancer fighters long ago reconciled themselves to a long war of attrition. They do not hope to find a miracle cure, but they do expect their present slow progress to continue. In Atlantic City last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, one scientist cracked: "The progress of cancer research depends on how fast mice reproduce." (Usual breeding rate: one litter every 20 days...
Hart Crane's mother (he was the only child) divorced her husband, had a nervous breakdown, became an ardent Christian Scientist, exhausted herself working in an antique shop, tried unsuccessfully to compel her son to go to college. His friends were the few emancipated spirits who congregated around Herbert Fletcher's bookshop in Akron, and later the New York and expatriate intellectuals who contributed to the little magazines...
...Statler's salons, they unpacked their special exhibits for the judges' inspection. One "young scientist had an ant hill; another brought a tesseract ("This is a three-dimensional representation," he explained, "of what a fourth-dimensional thing would look like, if there were a fourth dimension...
...very well to say that Mark Hopkins could teach on the end of a log: his subject was moral philosophy. His brother Albert, who was a scientist, needed a laboratory. In the century since the Hopkins brothers, education has rolled off the log and become one of the nation's biggest industries; though it has spent millions on its factories it needs two billion dollars more. Where will the money come from...
...book is the work of a Scottish physicist, Lancelot Whyte, 51, who was chairman and managing director of Power Jets, Ltd. from 1936 to 1941. With Frank Whittle, inventor of gas turbine jet propulsion, he shared in the development of jet propulsion. Whyte is a scientist who believes that science has a social duty to perform...