Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk, no reputable United Nations scientist or military man believes that secret weapons will have any decisive effect on the war's outcome. This certainty springs in part from the probability that there is no such thing as a completely secret weapon-jet-propelled planes (flown by Italians before the war), rocket guns and atom-busting have all been subjects of intense research by both United Nations and Axis scientists. In part this skepticism springs from the fact that secret weapons have seldom given an army anything more than a temporary advantage...
Confronted with these astounding claims, bemused U.S. doctors last week would not commit themselves because, to them, much Russian research seems intuitive rather than logical-the average Russian scientist often prefers to work things out in his head without resort to guinea pigs. U.S. doctors reluctantly admit that he often comes out with the right answer, but they want to be shown. U.S. research on ACS has already begun...
...animal husbandry. Waring & Teller think this analysis is pure hogwash - the sort of thing that city fellers like Steinbeck and McWilliams would naturally fall for. But, they insist, to stay on the land and make a living from it, the small farmer must be come a highly proficient scientist as well as something of an artist. He must master the tricks of contour plowing and strip cropping. He must eschew the temptation to bet everything on a single cash crop, for that way, in years of overproduction, lies bankruptcy...
...hearing, Nobel Scientist Millikan telephoned a protest statement to the committee attorney. When the attorney began to read it aloud, Gannon interrupted...
...just a scientist in sadism, with a job to do. He tosses a loaf of bread into the dirt among a crowd of starving men, not for the fun of it, but in order that they shall dive for it, fight, divide and degrade themselves...