Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yankee Scientist...
...Thousand Ejected Ministers. Guests were surprised when the child entertained them with discussions of "such matters as the Test and the Corporation Acts, or the interpretation of a point in Scripture:" At the age of 13, Hazlitt published a passionate defense of the Reverend Joseph Priestley, radical and scientist. But his zeal for religion faltered; young Hazlitt decided to become a painter. Art proved tumultuous. When his canvases displeased him - as they often did - Hazlitt slashed them to pieces in fits of rage. Nice girls also displeased Hazlitt. When Charles Lamb introduced Hazlitt to a group of them, the essayist...
Relaxin seems to be a protein compound, insoluble in most solvents. Though the pure hormone has not yet been isolated, Hisaw has produced highly concentrated doses. A conscientious scientist who never lets himself get ahead of his facts, Dr. Hisaw refuses to predict what use, if any, may be made of relaxin...
Bush's army consists of 6,000 of the top U.S. scientists. They work on assigned jobs, under nonprofit contracts, in some 300 university and industrial laboratories. Their pay is their normal laboratory salaries. They get no royalties, no bonuses, no medals. Their work is surrounded with fantastic secrecy. When they meet for group talks, the meeting place is first searched from cellar to attic for eavesdroppers. Clerical workers often do not know even the name of the weapon being developed in their own laboratory. A few supersecret projects are carried on in isolated, walled villages which...
...prodigious memory, he has solid learning in the more obvious forms of literature (he quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard), likes to read philosophy, plays the flute, loves symphonic music, has been a successful farmer and turkey raiser, is a fascinated and fascinating lecturer, and as a scientist has contributed substantially to progress in applied electricity and electronics...