Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Safety. This was not the clearcut ruling that Physicist Moon wanted and it was not the clarification that many an other U.S. scientist had hoped for. Nuclear physics includes a bewildering mass of facts, figures and principles. Some are "classified" and known only (the AEC hopes) to scientists in its confidence...
...that in the impending World War III only those who have mastered "the intricacies of research" can become the directors of physical might. Then will the obscure have their recognition, reward and revenge in destroying the humanity they have labored in obscurity to serve. Reader Hull, like any good scientist, must realize that the distant goal has not been made unattainable by the latest development. He and the rest to whom the presidency of Columbia University was the ultimate need merely and slightly to shift their...
...determined scientist always has new worlds to conquer. Professor Auguste Piccard, who broke the altitude record in a free balloon in 1932,* is nearly ready to try for the undersea depth record too. Last week 63-year-old Scientist Piccard told the North American Newspaper Alliance about the "bathyscaphe" (from the Greek for "depth ship"), his submarine balloon which will descend into the sea suspended from a steel and aluminum "gas bag" full of lightweight gasoline...
...light touch of government" sound too frightening to the press, Hocking drew an analogy to another kind of freedom which submitted to self-discipline and gained by it: "There is nothing freer, in our age, than the inquiry of science. Yet no one is free to be a scientist on his own version of the multiplication table...
...midst of war, the director of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development began plumping for a peacetime project. Last week, just before they adjourned, the House and Senate passed a bill to establish a National Science Foundation. To wise Yankee Scientist Vannevar Bush, it was the happy end of a two-year fight (TIME, July...