Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that from ordinary black & white pictures on photographic film he could get the colors of the original scenes. Greying, Ohio-born Charles Arthur Birch-Field is a successful Manhattan artist, retired head of a large advertising agency (BirchField & Co.), trained at the Cleveland School of Art,* son of a scientist and Westinghouse partner. Last week he demonstrated his fabulous-sounding infant process...
Leading the issue is Harold J. Laski's devastating criticism of the complacent "leave-it-until-we-win" school of thought. "The eminent English political scientist pulls no punches in charging that American and British Tories have a static conception of victory. Laski holds that the Nazi revolution can be permanently defeated only by stronger revolutionary idea, and that the promise of an economy of plenty is the only truly revolutionary concept which the United States has to offer. Plenty, however, is to Professor Laski manifestly impossible in a set of economic institutions best fitted to profit-yielding scarcity. Changing...
...accelerating student at Harvard has no time to spend on courses that do not count for his degree. The standards of a liberal education must not be used to penalize those students who choose to prepare for military service, for they would only close on the non-scientist the last door to a technical military position...
...good a Guinea Pig as the best of them is Subsistence Lab's big (six-feet-two), roughhewn guiding genius, Lieut. Colonel Rohland A. Isker. A hearty but discriminating eater rather than a scientist, Colonel Isker built a solid reputation in the cavalry by always feeding his men the best there was. He went to the Q.M.C. Subsistence School in 1934, later became commanding officer of the laboratory. Not all his experiments have been successful. Tomato bread, for example, was a flop...
Together with Prof. Rand, Reginald A. Daly, Sturgin Hopper Professor of Geology, a nationally-known scientist who received an honorary degree here last June, became emeritus yesterday. Also retired were Eldon R. James, professor of Law, Joseph Warren '97, Weld Professor of Law, Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, and Edward S. Thurston '98, professor...