Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building up of a personnel of those men whose activities in research and teaching place them among the leaders of their field. It is not an overstatement to say that the real value of Professor Shapley's achievements in astronomy marks him as that very desirable type of young scientist. However, by no means all the departments of science in the University are graced with men of his caliber, and the dull routine of uninspired teaching and petty research to be found there will produce neither first rate scientists nor significant achievements...
...that of the rest of the civilized world as embodied in the International Copyright Union (Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic Works). A group which had special reason to resent the filibusterings of Senators King (Utah), Dill (Washington) and Thomas (Oklahoma), was the First Church of Christ, Scientist...
Christian Scientist headquarters characterize the 1875 edition as "archaic" and so describe the 57 other varieties which were issued between that date and 1906. The standard edition, which was copy- righted in 1906, is protected by U. S. copyright law until 1962, and is looked upon as the true gospel of Mrs. Eddy...
...first, but the second and third editions of Science & Health, upon which the copyrights are good until 1934 and 1938, respectively, are the ones which contain the material Mrs. Eddy's sharpest critics (including Mark Twain) have used against her, and which the First Church of Christ, Scientist now disavows. Most notable part of this material is a chapter expounding an almost voodoo theory of malicious animal magnetism, written by Mrs. Eddy in a moment of anger at former pupils whom she suspected of working against...
...that he lumps them thus: Patron's Medal, 1928, by Royal Geographical Society, for work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen; awarded gold medals by American, Belgian, Danish, Cuban Geographical Societies (the Cuban society last week gave a medal to Georges Claude, French scientist who experimentally generates electricity from the heat differences between the surface and bottom waters of Matanzas Bay); silver medals by German Geographical Society and City of Berlin; gold medal by Norwegian and French Aeronautical Societies and Inter- national League of Aviators...