Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's busiest scientist, the U.S. Government, has more arms than a Hindu goddess. Last week President Truman set up a central committee (the Interdepartmental Committee for Scientific Research and Development) to make all the scientific arms work in concert. Chairman is John R. Steelman, the President's assistant, who will keep the White House informed on scientific doings. Government agencies concerned with science (from Agriculture to Veterans Administration) will supply one member each to sit on the committee. The principal duties of the committee: to coordinate federal research, recommend new projects, keep in touch with non-Government...
Tuskegee planned the ceremony to launch a $2,000,000 endowment campaign for its famed science research center, the Carver Foundation; now it needs $150,000 more to cope with a disaster. A month ago, many of the laboratories and most of the museum of the Carver Foundation, which Scientist Carver had built over the years, were destroyed by fire. Many of his exhibits and all but three of the 48 paintings he had left behind were gone, but Tuskegee plans to rebuild the Carver laboratories to carry on his work...
Before the war, Smith taught at Columbia and Brown, also starred on a radio show called Where Are You From (TIME, May 6, 1940). Like Shaw's Professor Higgins in Pygmalion, Linguistic Scientist Smith told strangers in his audience where they hailed from by the way they talked. His batting average: a respectable 80%. He made them pronounce such shibboleths as Mary, marry, merry (people from west of the Appalachians make no distinction), and wash, water, Washington. Smith's most notable failure: his wartime insistence that Lord Haw-Haw could not be William Joyce (he was). Smith thought...
...exactly 3:52 of a wintry Chicago afternoon in 1942, a scientist working in the University of Chicago's tightly guarded athletic field house dryly announced: "The curve is exponential." The speaker was Dr. Enrico Fermi; his four quiet words meant that a chain reaction had just been successfully brought about in the experimental uranium pile. Last week a TIME correspondent witnessed the unveiling of a plaque to mark the site...
...dread foot & mouth disease.* The worst outbreak (1914-16) forced the U.S. to slaughter and burn or bury (in quicklime) 175,000 U.S. animals before it was licked. The next time the battle may not be won-even at such cost. Said Dr. M. R. Clarkson, Department of Agriculture scientist: "If the disease ever gets across the Rio Grande, it would cost the U.S. at least $1 billion a year. It will affect all parts of the livestock industry, and it would be almost impossible to check...