Word: scientists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people ought to eat, they want to know it. Fifteen companies,* with nearly $1,000,000 in subscriptions, last week incorporated the non-profit Nutrition Foundation. Its purposes: 1) to establish cooperative research laboratories; 2) broadcast their nutritional findings freely. To head their foundation they got no less a scientist-administrator than Karl Taylor Compton, 54, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Julian Huxley, scientist brother of Novelist Aldous, arrived in Manhattan for a lecture tour, predicted: "The U.S. will be the most powerful country when the war is over, while Europe will be a complete mess...
...Questions?, familiarly known as "The Brains Trust," brings together as regulars an old sea dog, a fluent philosopher and a famed scientist-all three bossed by a London wit. Spontaneous and unrehearsed, its object is not to stump the experts but to draw them out. BBC now receives more than 2,000 questions a week, of which the likeliest dozen or so are popped to the Brains Trust during its three-quarters of an hour (5:15 to 6 p.m. Sundays...
...dumb, 'e's just got common sense instead of heducation."). They liked goat-bearded Cyril Joad because he could and would talk beautifully about anything. They liked Huxley for his precise knowledge (after a brilliant disquisition by Joad on "What is Love?" Scientist Huxley gave a direct biological answer...
Secret of Will Cuppy's success is that he can simultaneously be insane and urbane. Says Naturalist William Beebe: "When a scientist states a fact that ends it. But Cuppy is not satisfied and carries it further." Few will profit more from the book than the fast-vanishing Ivory-billed Woodpecker, for whom the author has sound advice...