Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average quiz show is a combination of sciolism, whimsey, trick queries and old-hat puns. But flourishing in Baltimore now is a question-&-answer program designed to enlighten as well as entertain. Known as Quiz the Scientist, aired Tuesdays at 7:45 p.m. over WBAL, the Baltimore show publicizes the activities of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, was put together five months ago by Academy Director Dr. J. Wallace Page in collaboration with a WBAL continuity writer named Vera Johnson. Feature of Quiz the Scientist is its formidable permanent board, which includes such lights as Dr. Robert Williams Wood, famed...
...main emphasis of the Program is on an increased and postponed study of the Social Sciences. The growth of industrial society and government intervention has enormously increased the scope of both private and public Law, and a good lawyer must of necessity be a social scientist. With this end in view the work which is now done by an undergraduate in his field of concentration will be largely shifted to his last two years of Law School, when Dean Landis feels sure he will be better equipped to handle the great and growing problems of economics and political science...
...rearing two children in a wolf den, fate performed an experiment which the maddest scientist would not dare. But sane Dr. Zingg is pleased with the valuable evidence that...
...about a year Kaiser and Reilly have been interested in making magnesium by a new "carbothermic" process developed by Dr. Fritz Hansgirg, an Austrian scientist now living in California. They bought up the U. S. rights to the patents, started plugging for an RFC loan to start production. For $9,250,000 to get things going, they offered to put up a plant that would produce at the rate of 12,000 to 15,000 tons within a year. Since total U. S. production last year was only 6,500 tons, their proposal sounded fantastic. But they had Kaiser...
What he could do to involve this country in war would be slight. What he can do as a scientist in speeding and promoting the sending of war supplies to the besieged island is great...