Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Julian Huxley, dull scientist brother of sprightly Novelist Aldous, was reminded last week of the old nursery rhyme, "While the cat's away the mice will play." His Government-sponsored lecture tour of the U.S. finished, Scientist Huxley was awaiting a ship to take him back to England when word came that he had been fired as director of the London...
...Said Scientist J. B. S. Haldane, one of the Council members who opposed the ouster: "Huxley is in America with the backing of the British Council. . . . His dismissal will spread considerable alarm and despondency among professional workers because it discourages people from doing work for the Government...
...startling was the news that many another scientist was politely incredulous. Antibodies, the disease-fighting substances in the blood, have been made artificially in laboratory flasks for the first time. This achievement was announced last week by Chemists Linus Pauling, Dan Campbell and David Pressman of California Institute of Technology. The three researchers made it clear that their work is still in the realm of biochemistry and that flask-prepared solutions are not yet ready to replace the serums for clinical use now developed from horses and other animals...
...stouthearted scientist, Dr. Berg took samplings, narrowed down the field to ten, concentrated on two. To each of these, The Right to Happiness (NBC) and Woman in White (CBS), he listened for three weeks. His findings, as presented last week, were so unequivocal that he was constrained to point out that they did not apply to all daytime radio serials...
...Canada's diamond-hard scientist and soldier, Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton, took straight to the President in Washington his theme for victory: brains, tanks and attack will win the war. Said General McNaughton, who commands Canada's overseas Army in Great Britain: "We are going to cross the Channel again. We are going to march through France and into Germany...