Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Great progress has been achieved in the field of ethics during the last fifty years, Karl R. Popper, professor of Logic and Scientific Method at the University of London, declared yesterday afternoon in the first of a series of ten William James Lectures. The talk, entitled: "Is Science Still Interesting," was an introductory analysis to Popper's theories of scientific method...
...highbrows of the breakfast population, Post's 40% Bran Flakes have started a book service. Twenty-five cents and the box top bring Bantam editions of classics like "Hound of the Baskervilles." Perhaps this is a sign of coming cultural sophistication in the cereal box field. The boxes, after all, next to newspapers, are probably the most widely read breakfast table publications in the country. Someday, perhaps, each cereal will publish a daily edition, imprinted with dispatches from Battle Creek, reproductions of works of the masters, and scores to great pieces of music. And in that day, American culture will...
Died. Sidney Arthur ("Sid") Field, 45, bulb-nosed British comic who soared to fame in wartime revues (Strike a New Note, Strike It Again); in Richmond, Surrey. Disdaining the fast gag, Field mixed the pathetic and the preposterous into an art reminiscent of Chaplin's, but with a slapdash gusto...
Lincoln Finds a General, by Kenneth Williams. The first two volumes of a four-volume Unionside history of the Civil War, a job that tops anything yet done in its field (TIME...
Unable to cope with a constantly shifting Holy Cross defense, the fresh man basketball team dropped its third game to ten starts, 45 to 24, Saturday night in Worcester. The Yardlings were limited to six field goals and were held to under 50 points for the first time this season...