Word: diffusionism
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Tead also called upon universities to abandon quotas for minority groups. If this were done, he said, "after five or ten years there would come a natural diffusion of students from these groups into the great majority of colleges, and the problem would no longer be acute."
Planning. The U.S. still has the biggest single atom program; it has spent some $2,500,000,000 and President Truman recently asked for another $443,000,000 in 1947-48. But last October Russia tripled her annual research budget (including the atom) to $1,200,000,000. Last month...
France's most popular radio show is Music Hall de Paris. Last week, as they usually do, some 400 Frenchmen crowded into the 250-seat Rue Washington studio to watch the broadcast. They did not expect much. Every Frenchman knows that French radio is terrible (see cut). The only...
What he meant he made clear in his will. If a nephew proved childless, then his property would go to the "United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."
Nation's Attic. From the moment of foundation, the Smithsonian was overwhelmed by an embarrassing flood of "national treasures": stuffed animals, historical relics, antiques, paintings, statues. Most had little to do with the "diffusion of knowledge."