Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exercised absolute dictatorial powers over men and materials in its $2 billion wartime research program, developing radar, antiradar, various new chemical warfare wrinkles-and nuclear fission. Conant's job was as an organizer, moderator and catalyst, but he would have failed if he had not been a topnotch scientist...
...discouraging though. The French were cheered the other day by a scientist's prediction that Germany's population is now on a decline and France's might conceivably surpass it in fifty years. Nothing could bring more peace of mind to France than the fulfillment tomorrow of that prediction, but just what the French are doing to make it come true could not be accurately ascertained by this reporter. The wine is good, though, and the dress shops and perfume counters again bear testimony to that peculiar aspect of French genius. Thanks to the industrious, if not too successful efforts...
...early became aware that the forces and skills which scientific research was turning loose on the world could possibly liberate, and might destroy it. Wells believed that in order to cope with these forces and with himself, man had only to embrace all that a scientist would call reasonable, and reject all that a scientist would call unreasonable...
...prehistoric man, said to have lived in what is now the Mount Carmel district in Palestine a thousand centuries ago and brought to the University's Peabody Museum by the scientist who unearthed him, will be the most difficult to see of all the University celebrities for the next few months...
Whether one agrees with Hansen or Hazlitt, he must recognize that the latter is setting the economist a well-nigh impossible task. Forecasting the "long-run" effects of any policy calls for the talents of a Nostrodamus far more than for the skills of a social scientist. The awe-inspiring speed of twentieth-century technological change, and the sweeping alterations which it makes in social structure, render any long-range prognostication a risky business at best...