Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worldling" TIME meant that Scientist Hawkesworth, like all astronomers, was earth-bound in his observations of the universe, not that he was personally selfish or materialistic...
...will thus become the second person in U. S. history so honored during life, the first so honored alone. In 1926 Calvin Coolidge shared a half dollar with George Washington to mark the sesquicentennial of the Declaration of Independence Picking a summer house at Saranac Lake, N. Y., Scientist Albert Einstein remarked that he wanted it to escape curiosity seekers who "peer into my windows at Princeton...
...modern religionist has ever rivaled Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, shrewd founder of Christian Science. She repeatedly worried her remarkable work, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures, revising it indefatigably, issuing one edition after another. Each edition differed enough from the last so that no Christian Scientist could afford to be without it. Last week when 6,000 of Mrs. Eddy's followers gathered in Boston for Mother Church's annual one-day meeting, Science & Health was clearly still the fastest-moving item on the publishing church's list of 246 books. Its latest forms...
...Williams, Henry L. Shattuck, treasurer of the University, and Morris B. Lambie, political scientist, were both honored, the former as doctor of laws, the second doctor or humane letters...
With his morning notes to prove that some of his dreams were really more or less accurate previsions of phenomena experienced later, Dunne began to think about the sort of world in which such things could happen. He adopted the deterministic universe cherished by many a philosopher and scientist from Plato to Einstein*;a universe in which Future and Past are both parts of a unified reality, and in which the distinction between them is a purely mental one. In the preoccupied waking state, reasoned Philosopher Dunne, the mind has no contact with the "future" in sleep, when it wanders...