Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right by Negro music and its development. In the future it also intends to do right by Negro science, literature, sport, religion. Scheduled to go on the air about once a month for the next half-year Freedom's People hopes to feature such Negro eminents as Scientist Dr. George Washington Carver, Author Langston Hughes, Artist Aaron Douglas, Fighter Joe Louis many another...
...English scientist, Fox Talbot, had finally managed to evolve a transparent negative, a flimsy sheet of waxed paper from which, for the first time, prints could be reproduced. Talbot called his new kind of photograph the calotype. Taking Talbot's idea, Hill got technical assistance from a young chemist named Robert Adamson, set up a photographic studio in the heart of Edinburgh...
Herbert Spencer Polin, a young (32) scientist whose home office is a laboratory on the 71st floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, got interested in coffee five years ago when Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. hired him for research on roasting methods. Finding that coffee contains all the chemical components of plastics, he went to work on his own to develop a process for combining them...
...California mining sites, of which no trace remains, can often be relocated by nearby thickets of ailanthus trees. A University of California scientist made the discovery and found the reason: in gold-rush days, Chinese cooks, laundrymen and coolies planted the ailanthus, known to them as "tree of heaven," to remind them of home...
...Italian Armistice Commission plane at Casablanca and flew it to Gibraltar. Two boys flew a German Colonel's plane from a field in Occupied France and landed it on a military airdrome in England. Another stole a transport plane from the Vichy airport and flew to London. A scientist who was reluctant to leave his wife and five children in France found a note in his pocket when he was halfway across the English Channel. It said what she had not told him before, for fear he might not go: that she was pregnant with her sixth child...