Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question attracted most public interest: You are the head of an expedition which has come to grief in the desert. There is enough food and water left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost of civilization. The rest must perish. Your companions are: 1. A brilliant scientist 60 years old. 2. Two half-breed guides ages 58 and 32. 3. The scientist's wife-interested mainly in society matters, age 39. 4. Her little son, age six. 5. The girl you are engaged to marry. 6. Your best friend, a young man of your...
...that the leader should remain. There is little probability that the son could stand the hardship. He would be too poor a risk. His mother probably would not wish to be separated from him and it would not be advisable to separate them. I should not select the scientist of sixty since presumably most of his work would have been achieved. I should select the young scientist, not because he was my best friend but because of his promise to the scientific world, and I should select the young girl whom I was engaged to marry...
Concluded Editor Pew: "If I may be pardoned for making a suggestion, it is that newspapermen who prize . . . the classic heroism and pathfinding of our young pioneer of the air should see in him less of the showman and more of the scientist...
...Paris, en route to India (where his wife is ill) to continue his painting and archeological trips, Professor Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, Russian artist-scientist-mystic, founder of Roerich Museum, in Manhattan, learned that a visa for India had been denied him by the British Government, which charged him with sympathy for the Soviets. Said he: "Any person who is even superficially acquainted with the nature of my work and activities for the past 40 years will understand that the allegation of Communism is inconsistent with the truth...
...That Scientist Pasteur (originator of milk pasteurization) was right when he said: "Wine is the most healthy and hygienic of beverages...