Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Discoverer Urey last week was awarded the Willard Gibbs medal, top U. S. chemical kudos, bestowed annually by the American Chemical Society on a scientist in any country "whose work has received world-wide recognition...
Admirable political scientist that he is, his own previous book may be used against him. His earlier analysis of political parties had no indication of what our two parties are now, only eight years after it was written; his exceedingly successful use of figures fails, however, to give the dynamics of the social situation. For all of his familiarity (he teaches a course) will Communist and Fascist theory, he seems to be insensitive to the profound ethical, economic, and social challenges of today. It is impossible in this short space to enter into any of the many possible point...
...Having been in succession a Protestant, a Christian Scientist, and a Roman Catholic, Mrs. Bertram Brooke went up in an airplane over the British channel to be received into the faith of Mohammed by a red-fezzed dignitary of the Western Islamic Association who shouted above the roar of propellers: "I give thee the name of Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." (TIME...
...doubted that President Lowell, an able political scientist,* held scholarship in high regard. Almost his last official act was to establish a Society cf Fellows wherein 24 young superscholars may seek knowledge free from academic or financial care. But thoughtful Harvardmen began to grow uneasy as the Lowell regime lengthened. Columbia was drawing ahead in this department, Chicago in that, Wisconsin in another. Old Harvard faculty giants-Royce, James, Palmer, Norton, Santayana-were dead or retired. Kittredge, Lowes, Copeland, Hocking, Perry were getting on. Where were the men to replace them? President Lowell retired with that question unanswered...
President Conant knows how to use money to please other scholars. For the scientist: special laboratory equipment. For the historian: books, manuscripts. For the economist: secretarial aid. And every scholar yearns to see his precious but non-commercial findings in print. With such satisfactions would President Conant lure the world's best scholars to his Cambridge fold...