Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin Quarter swarmed the students of Paris. If the people did not know France's overwhelming need, the students did-unity behind a towering political figure. If the people did not know the towering figure, the students did-high-domed Ferdinand Lop, teacher, editor, poet, political scientist and perennial Latin Quarter candidate for president...
...asked to subscribe at least a month's wages. In return, he will get non-interest-bearing bonds whose serial numbers will also be lottery numbers. One-third of the bonds will win cash prizes up to 50,000 rubles ($9,435). Initial subscriptions were heavy; one scientist signed up for 100,000 rubles...
...Committee did not presume to specify methods, however, he explained so techniques have been left for development by "teachers' teachers." Chosen for their wide educational experience new additions to the faculty will include Lawrence Opler a specialist in historical anthropology, and Fl etcher Watson, a scientist who is personally acquainted with school systems in several other sections of the country...
...humph. According to them, color was a good five years off, and the best that television could do now was black & white. A fortnight ago, Allen B. Du Mont, pioneer television promoter, warned: ". . . color television for the home is ... still in the far distant future.. . . The informed, sincere scientist is not convinced by dramatically staged and carefully controlled laboratory demonstrations...
...author of Huber the Tuber, a Story of Tuberculosis, had a new one on the bookstalls: Corky the Killer, a Story of Syphilis (American Social Hygiene Association; $1). The author (and illustrator) was Dr. Harry A. Wilmer, a young scientist who took five degrees in eight years at the University of Minnesota. His book is a slightly bawdy blend of fact & fancy that seeks by cartoons and comic-strip dialogue to tell about the syphilis spirochete and how it works...