Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monsanto, where Dr. Kyrides avoids his flossy executive offices and spends almost all his time in his laboratory, he is esteemed as a modest, impulsive, absent-minded scientist. His present colleagues did not know of his pioneering work in synthetic rubber until World War II sent them to their reference books...
...Love (by Edward Caulfield; produced by Arthur Beckhard & Victor Hugo-Vidal) concerns a lady scientist and a well-known actor (Lotus Robb and Walter Hampden) who meet through a marriage bureau, hide their identities, spend a trial fortnight in Connecticut...
...experienced the hardships of jungle living, prepared for an expedition to the Venezuela tropical forests, admitted he was "tired of roughing it." For his headquarters, Beebe reported that he had found a building originally designed as a hotel, smack in the heart of the jungle, explained: "A scientist can't study nearly as well if he's cold and wet or . . . tired...
...Jennings' experiments in infinitesimal incest have yielded valuable hints on the effects of human inbreeding. Last summer they also led the scientist to a surprising discovery. In his efforts to mate various cells of one variety of paramecium, he discovered evidence that the paramecia are divided into no less than eight sexes. Unable to determine the physiological differences between them, he has found proof that each sex will mate cheerfully with any one of the other seven, but rigidly eschews homosexuality...
...American Scientist article, Vernadsky attempted, like a man from Mars, to place mankind in geological perspective...