Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace came from Iowa, where he was the editor of Wallace's Farmer, the journal founded by his Republican grandfather. He was friend and spokesman of the men of the soil, the exponent of scientific farming. He was a dreamer, and a scientist who developed a hybrid corn. Franklin Roosevelt made him his Secretary of Agriculture and he went to Washington -a shy, humble man with a cowlick, who once put himself on an exclusive diet of soybeans just to prove a point. He proved that soybeans are not enough...
...Jeans had stuck to his astronomical knitting, only scientists would ever have heard of him. But he was that great rarity, a first-rate scientist with a command of lucid English. Starting in the late 1920s, he wrote a series of best-selling books* which brought the new discoveries of science, unblemished by errors or indignity, down to the popular level...
With limpid, vivid clarity, Jeans explained the mysteries. He did not stop work as a scientist, but gradually his scientific work took second place. He lectured, played the lion, his comings & goings across the Atlantic became almost public events...
...foresight is [that] Brave New World contains no reference to nuclear fission. . . . The next phase may be atomic warfare . . . but it is conceivable that we have enough sense [to confine ourselves] to a period, not indeed of peace, but of . . . only partially ruinous warfare. . . . During that period the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must...
Lord Lindsay of Birker, Master of Balliol College, Oxford University, a distinguished political scientist whom Professor William Y. Elliott calls "the most powerful philosopher of Democracy today," will lecture next Monday in Emerson D on "Eastern and Western Conceptions of Democracy...