Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religion stops seeking old, elusive gods and identifies itself with scientific humanism in an attempt to improve Man, it is doomed to perish from the earth. Five able pedagogs subscribed to this belief in a letter which they sent last week to many a U. S. scholar, author, teacher, scientist. The letter began by stating that the Society of Friends (Quakers) is one body in which modern thinking and religious impulses may be reconciled. Excerpts...
...economic order changes, and the living specimens of today become in a few years the fossil remains of a bygone age. We are speaking, it will be noted, not of changes in theories but of mutations in the phenomena with which theories deal in no field, probably, does the scientist have to deal with phenomena that change so generally and rapidly as in that of the social sciences, to which economics belongs...
...Statistics appearing in The Builders of America by Ellsworth Huntington, Yale social scientist, and Leon F. Whitney, eugenist, show that for every 20 clergymen one clergyman's son is listed in Who's Who, whereas the proportion for other professions is 46 to 1; for skilled labor 1,600 to 1; for unskilled labor 48,000 to 1 (figures based on 1922-23 edition of Who's Who). Famed sons of clergymen: Henry Van Dyke, William Lyon Phelps, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Otis Skinner, John Grier Hibbeii, Irving Fisher, Charles Evans Hughes...
With this conception of an interspacial sea of turbulent radiation, Mr. MacKaye was able to adduce 17 phenomena which the relativists describe with their inconstant dimensions, but which he believed could be measured with the classical constants of time, space and motion. Scientist MacKaye, 57, is brother to Percy Wallace MacKaye, dramatist, poet, lecturer, esthete, and Hazel MacKaye, producer of esthetic pageants. A half-brother is Arthur Loring MacKaye, retired newspaper editor (Hilo Daily Tribune, Hawaii). All four are versatile writers...
...legs. They could calculate something harder than that from sufficient data-the whorling paths of cream as it pours into a breakfast cup of coffee, for example. Factors are what the mathematician asks for. He can describe more accurately than the man in the street or the academic scientist what will happen from combinations of those factors. A classic case: Albert Einstein's prediction of starlight bending...