Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since it scrapped its traffic light system four years ago, busy, industrial Bayonne, N.J. has had a substantial decrease in traffic mishaps. No scientist has explained why. But last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Cincinnati Physician Howard D. Fabing examined the behavior of the average motorist, found that traffic lights caused conditioned reflexes which made him as dithery as one of Russian Physiologist I.P. Pavlov's famous third-degreed dogs...
...precautions he now recommends. He ignores the fact that Moscow has not taken them, that the French Popular Front, after studying the reports of its many-agents in Spain, adopted the same "evacuation strategy" as British Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. Apart from his plunge into politics and recriminations, Scientist Haldane gives many objective, personal accounts of his sensations under bombing in Spain...
...half from outside. About 200 undergraduates studying physics also work at Cavendish. Its lecture halls are antiquated and barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur scientist, provided $75,000 in 1932. The Mond Laboratory, which has vibration-damping walls and sleek steel and scarlet furniture in the director's offices, has attained the creditable mark of .02° C. above Absolute Zero...
...radical deputy, Wazemmes, a sign painter's apprentice; their stories, appearing in alternate chapters, seemed to be related only in being laid in Paris at the same period. Later volumes described intrigue in the Catholic Church and the formation of a mysterious secret society. They introduced a young scientist, an oil magnate involved in a love affair with his partner's wife, a munitions maker with curious vices, a broken-down novelist, a successful dramatist, students, schoolgirls, fortunetellers. Major theme linking the characters was an awareness of the danger of war, which influenced their moods, their actions...
Most of the characters who have appeared to date reappear briefly on the eve of war: Wazemmes has become a monarchist; the munitions maker is mixed up with a sadistic woman doctor; the young scientist has begun to make a name for himself; Gurau has refused the post of Foreign Minister; Quinette is planning another murder...