Word: diffusionism
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The experimental work of the electromagnetic method was done at the University of California under blond, boyish Dr. E. O. Lawrence; on diffusion, at Columbia under Dr. H. C. Urey. By 1943, before the experiments were completed, vast plants to carry out both processes were being constructed at Oak Ridge...
Affront to Culture. Although the announcer did not name the butt of his epithet, the Press-Propaganda office promptly hit Belgrano with a 48-hour advertising suspension for "expressions [which] constituted an affront to the nation's culture.and violated the fundamental principles of broadcasting, which today is the greatest...
Reich Down. Wrote Notestein: "Germany, like her western neighbors, has passed the period in which she could become a dominant world power. [This is due] to the diffusion of technological civilization among peoples that are growing more rapidly. Those who view the prevention of a new German attempt at conquest...
Its most eloquent sponsor asked that Basic English be spread worldwide by British propaganda, diplomatic and commercial agents. Said he: "The use of such an auxiliary language would of course be greatly increased by its progressive diffusion."
Many of the books are successful products of commercial publishers, retooled by Army pedagogues and writers. Teacher-value is got into the books by simplifying language, adding helpful illustrations, frequent summaries, true & false tests. A physics self-teacher tells how to study gas diffusion without a laboratory: if a piece...