Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many a scientist was sure that it was only a question of time-perhaps five or ten years-before vastly bigger, farther-flying bombs can be dropped accurately on a target by radio control. The No. 1 U.S. expert on remote-controlled weapons, Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. of Gloucester, Mass., recalled a 1929 prediction : "The war of the future will last hours instead of years...
...scientist in London, pronouncing the robot bomb "as revolutionary as the airplane," solemnly declared last week: "In the postwar world, development of rocket and jet propulsion must be placed in the hands of some international body to administer. No nation in Europe-perhaps none in the world-could feel safe with another nation developing such weapons...
...enemy turned old friend, as an Empire figure with a deep feeling for Britain, as a world figure with a heart proud of Britain's greatness, a mind ever probing into Britain's and the Empire's weaknesses. In his versatility this statesman, warrior, philosopher, orator, scientist, author had a quality of the Elizabethans. Britons thought of him as South Africa's late Governor General Sir Patrick Duncan had called him in the anxious days of 1941: "A great rock in a weary world...
...Codfish has made a new man of me, for this reason: that major menace of the modern world, the Scientist, has not yet been able to tackle the fish of the sea and feed them up according to his formulae instead of letting them live according to the rules of Nature...
...Fallow Years. Having made his great discovery, Dr. Fleming went on to other work. He was engaged in many other experiments-no scientist knows just which of his bottles contains the Nobel Prize. In the history of penicillin there ensued eleven years almost as sterile as the area around the penicillium...