Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author. When Edith Almedingen was ten, she talked to Leo Tolstoy about Homer. So, at least, her kinspeople told her. Tolstoy thought she might become a poet. Her father was a scientist. She had Danish and English grandparents, grown brothers and sisters. Her family was poor, "though we still kept four domestics." They lived in a flat on one of the Lines of the Vassily Island in St. Petersburg. (The Lines were laid out as canals, but built into wide, tree-shaded boulevards.) Her parents were separated; her father taught at the fashionable Xenia, school for daughters of the nobility...
...time he left the Alexander I Technical College in Russia, through his years with Bell Laboratories in New York and up to the time of his present position as instructor at the Harvard Research Laboratory of Physics, his life has been a tug-of-war between Boolba the scientist and Boolba the artist. For reasons of a dietary nature (one must eat), the former eclipsed the latter--but only superficially. The "fire" still burns within, and with a little pursuasive fanning, one can readily be treated to a wisp of artistic smoke in the form of an original poem, pencil...
Congratulations on your article "Yankee Scientist." Surely the leaders of this country should realize the need for fostering the development of science as a weapon of war and a bulwark against chaos in the peace to come...
Youngsters are the brains and guts of the nation's war-research program. In some of the most vital new technologies, such as electronics, they are the whole show; one eminent scientist observed that "no man older than 35 can have a really fundamental grasp of electronics." Some typical cases...
Many a U.S. scientist last week grimly contrasted U.S. draft policy with those of Britain, Russia and Germany, which have taken care to keep their scientists where they can be most useful - in the laboratories. The heedless drafting of scientists, said they, would not only put a crimp in the U.S. war effort but place the nation at a serious disadvantage in postwar technology...