Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harper ($5). Less than two hours after receiving the final revision of the MS of this book Author George Amos Dorsey died (TIME, April 6). Publisher Harper says Dorsey had been working intensively on Man's Own Show for four years, implies that overwork hastened his end. If Scientist Dorsey's excitement over Why We Behave Like Human Beings excited you, you will probably want to read his hard-wrought magnum opus. Says Dorsey: "I have attempted to . . . discuss human beings and civilization as objectively as though I were neither human nor civilized, but nevertheless had retained...
...bird had fluttered off her nest right in front of me, leaving it quickly in an effort to conceal it. But I located it almost at once, then shot her and went after the eggs. There were five of them, tiny things that never had been seen by a scientist before...
...Secondly, I am working to develop a new source of power. When I say a new source, I mean that I have turned for power to a source which no previous scientist has turned, to the best of my knowledge. The conception, the idea when it first burst upon me was a tremendous shock...
...understand that ever since the Scopes trial you've wanted to put forward a motion picture to educate the people to your contentions about Evolution." An arrange ment was made whereby Mr. Laemmle's Universal Pictures would supplement Mr. Cummins' bits with connectives and shots of Mr. Darrow. No scientist, and very, very serious about the proposed picture, Lawyer Darrow called in Smith College's goateed Professor Howard Madison Parshley and they spent three hardworking months preparing explanatory dialog. Last week the finished film was ready for review by Dr. James Wingate's New York State Board of Censors before...
...Scientist Albert Einstein wrote a letter from Potsdam, Germany, to Governor James Rolph of California, appealing for an "absolute pardon" for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren H. Billings, questionably convicted of bombing the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade. Pleaded Scientist Einstein: "I, myself, am of the decided opinion which I must, express, for I cannot lie, that a miscarriage of justice undoubtedly appears in the present case...