Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upon reading Bernard Iddings Bell's rather brutal condemnation of the educational shortcomings in the American Common Man [TIME, April 25], I was seized with the thought that here is a situation for which a remedy must be found...
...state of our atomic weapons," how big is the stockpile, how much progress has been made in new weapon design? The record, he had written, "is a proud one." Now, on the witness stand, he invited the committee to ask some 30 prominent scientists and industrialists what they thought of AEC. The joint committee itself, he said, had enough information to determine whether the program had been "incredibly mismanaged." He had told them everything they had wanted to know. He had kept no secrets from them, with one major exception: the number of bombs in the stockpile, withheld...
...Clinic was founded in 1926 by Dr. Morten Prince, a noted Harvard psychologist, amid rumors that it had been set up to analyze the Faculty. At that time the philosophy department was in charge of the strange new science: the thought of being held responsible for the antics of the maniacs they imagined were under care at the Clinic trouble the sleep of the philosophers for many years...
...rate, it's worth some thought. It would be interesting to see how a good Harvard crew stacks up against the highly-boosted boys from out West...
Appointment of the new Junior Fellows brings the total membership of the 16-year-old Society to over 80. All Fellows have been selected for "resourcefulness, initiative, intellectual curiosity, and promise of notable contribution to one or more . . . fields of knowledge and thought...