Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demonstration, characterized as "spontaneous" by PCA headquarters in Boston, led to a resolution at the organization's Sunday convention backing the scientist for governor. The action did not have the effect of a nomination, a PCA spokesman explained, since the meeting was not a third party convention...
...team since they were boys. Sons of a United Brethren bishop (there were two other brothers and a sister), they liked to make things for themselves. They quit high school and opened a bicycle shop. In 1896, they read about the fatal crash of Otto Lilienthal, a German scientist who had been experimenting with gliders. They sent to the Smithsonian 'Institution for all the information there was on flying (there wasn't much), and asked the Weather Bureau to recommend a place where the wind blew steady and strong over unobstructed ground. The bureau suggested Kitty Hawk...
...proper scientist should, Dr. Sonneborn spoke modestly of his achievement. But it is none the less notable: he had given his sensitive paramecia an acquired characteristic (the killing ability) which they transmitted by heredity to their offspring. Classical genetics has been saying firmly that it just cannot be done...
...Scientist Kinsey and his assistants have gathered 12,214 case histories of U.S. men, women & children. Kinsey himself recorded 7,036 of them. In the 20 more years they expect to spend on the study,† he and his associates will add 88,000 histories, publish eight other volumes. Their first book is based on interviews with 5,300 white males. Answers were recorded in code to avoid embarrassment, and tabulation by punch cards made the work easier...
...actual lines of Whitehead's thought are so involved that a surface glance cannot do them justice. One thing, however, marks him as more than the usual scientist or philosopher: his tremendous drive to synthesize and apply philosophy, mathematics, and logic to the world in one thesis which could reach beyond the limits of each pigeon-holed science to envelop the universe...