Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patriarch George Washington Carver, who hobbles benignly about Tuskegee's campus, is an artist. But he is better known as the greatest Negro scientist alive, the man who pioneered new uses for Southern agricultural products, developed 285 new uses for the peanut, got 118 products, including vinegar, molasses and shoe blacking, from the South's surplus sweet potatoes. In his laboratory he and his assistants also make paints and dyes from the red Alabama clay, the oil of the Alabama peanut, with which he paints the natural phenomena he sees around him: birds, fruit, flowers, mountain vistas...
...question: What happens to a flyer's heart, lungs and circulatory system when he plunges earthward from a disabled airplane at high altitude and falls free as long as he dares, 1) to escape the enemy, 2) to get into warm, breathable air? The Army and many a scientist wanted to know the answer...
David Fenwick is duped by the cheap, voluptuous city-girl whom he marries, forgetting what it's like to be weaned on coal-dust, and sacrificing his ideals of mine-reform for the frustrating and impotent life of schoolmaster in his native hamlet. Novelist Cronin is a scientist, and the generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay...
Professor Hoadley is a scientist first, last and always--even to insisting on keeping in step with whomever he is walking down the street. As for excitement, he says he is "nothing on night life," though he admits that "the complex species of mammal found in such an environment is definitely an interesting problem. But then, that's not my field...
...regards soccer as a science and treats it as a scientist would his speciality. He is a coach who has played his sport and who knows it from every angle. The first thing that "Mac" demands from his students is a comprehensive knowledge of the game's fundamentals. This year he has inaugurated a system of recording the detailed play of each man. By keeping charts of every mistake and every good move of each player he is not only able to select the best men for each position with perfect confidence in his choice, but he can show...