Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1931, in the Tien Shan Mountains, a young Soviet scientist discovered a dandelion-like weed whose roots yielded a gummy juice suitable for making rubber.* Russia promoted the lowly kok-sagyz to the dignity of a cultivated crop, by 1939 her farmers had planted 62,000 acres...
...improvements represented a high degree of skill . . . but not invention. Patents . . . are not intended as a reward for a highly skilled scientist who completes the final step in a technique. They are not intended as a reward for the collective achievement of a corporate research organization. To give patents for such routine experimentation ... is to use the patent law ... to create monopolies for corporate organizers instead of men of inventive genius. We are bound to interpret the patent law ... to reward individual and not group achievement...
Most chillers overcrowd the screen with werewolves or explain away all supernatural antics as the deliberate hocus-pocus of a mad scientist, estate-grabber or Axis agent. The Uninvited blends the everyday with the inexplicable, gets a lot of its best scares out of the everyday. The skittering of a squirrel across the drumhead floors of the vacant house suddenly gives vacancy a cold portentousness. The scraping of a wine glass against a table, during the seance, is more scary than the seance itself. The unexpected smashing of a window while you are watching a rather good Paramount ghost rasps...
...half century no U.S. scientist has been officially dead until the patriarchal weekly Science published his obituary...
...right as a scientist, Dr. Cattell rated much more than perfunctory notice. To him the U.S. owed not only much of its information about scientists, but also much of its passion for psychological tests. With William James, Cattell pioneered the U.S. study of psychology...