Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth is round, all right-but not round like a bourgeois ball; it has a more complicated, more Russian shape. So a Soviet scientist announced recently. Since 1940, said Professor Alexander Alexandrovich Izotov, he and fellow Russian geodesists have painstakingly remeasured significant areas of the earth. Their measurements make expanding Russia bigger than ever...
...Tightrope. Headlines in Paris papers had trumpeted: "Tomorrow the world is going to blow up," and Scientist Robert Esnault-Pelterie had warned that Crossroads might well start a fatal chain reaction. On the appointed Day of Wrath, a load of wooden wine caskets broke loose from a truck in Casablanca, French Morocco, and hollowly thundered on the cobbled street. That touched off riots: thousands of Arabs were sure that the Angel Israfil was summoning them to their doomsday tightrope, whence (so said the Prophet) the damned would fall into hell...
...past five years, in one way or another, almost every able-bodied U.S. scientist has worked for the Office of Scientific Research and Development. This week OSRD quietly went out of business.* But scientists, who are diehard individualists, fear that they are not through with being bossed. In universities throughout the land, they are beginning to discover that they have acquired a new paymaster-the U.S. Army & Navy...
Thoughtful scientists are thoroughly alarmed. Is the military about to take over U.S. science, lock, stock & barrel, calling the tune for U.S. universities and signing up the best scientists for work fundamentally aimed at military results? Many a scientist believes that is exactly what is happening...
...shall never travel in the stratosphere again." Bird-necked Professor Auguste Piccard made that solemn promise to his wife in 1932, just after he had ballooned to the stratosphere from Switzerland and landed with a wallop across the Alps. Last week, still stuck with his pledge, the Swiss scientist announced that he would try exploring in the opposite direction: next February he will head for the bottom of the ocean...