Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson bill was not supposed to be concerned with international control of atomic power. But its provision for iron secrecy, its original harsh penalties were patently part of an optimistic plan to keep foreign nations . (everyone knew that meant Russia) from making atom bombs. Scientist after scientist turned up to swear that there was no real secret to be kept, to point out that the May-Johnson bill would only throttle scientific research and start a world arms race. Amid all the confusion new bills were .written-last week a Ball bill, a McMahon bill, a Kilgore-Magnuson bill...
While collecting evidence against Her mann Goring, the war criminal, Allied investigators learned much about Goring, the scientist. Last week they told how he sometimes used Germany's helpless hu man guinea pigs...
...years go by and Dr. Korvin has become stylishly grey at the temples. Judging by his plushy country estate, he must by now be the most famous, and certainly the richest, research scientist in all the world. At a convention in Chicago, he goes slumming with some doctor friends-and who does he find playing the piano in a fairly seedy-looking nightclub but Merle. She is much more cynical but just as beautiful as ever...
Just before the atomic bomb was first tested in New Mexico, a distinguished scientist offered an uncollectible bet: ten-to-one that the bomb would set off a chain reaction in the atmosphere. His colleagues were pretty sure that the planet would not go up in that particular explosion. But many scientists think that some future bomb, or series of bombs, may well have the power to end the world...
...Boston, a scientist foresaw someone sitting down to play a piano and destroying a city. Dr. Louis N. Ridenour of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology thought an atomic machine might easily be made to resemble a grand piano. And he warned: "Science has devised no means for detecting atomic explosions before they are detonated...