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Before the war, Smith taught at Columbia and Brown, also starred on a radio show called Where Are You From (TIME, May 6, 1940). Like Shaw's Professor Higgins in Pygmalion, Linguistic Scientist Smith told strangers in his audience where they hailed from by the way they talked. His batting average: a respectable 80%. He made them pronounce such shibboleths as Mary, marry, merry (people from west of the Appalachians make no distinction), and wash, water, Washington. Smith's most notable failure: his wartime insistence that Lord Haw-Haw could not be William Joyce (he was). Smith thought...
...exactly 3:52 of a wintry Chicago afternoon in 1942, a scientist working in the University of Chicago's tightly guarded athletic field house dryly announced: "The curve is exponential." The speaker was Dr. Enrico Fermi; his four quiet words meant that a chain reaction had just been successfully brought about in the experimental uranium pile. Last week a TIME correspondent witnessed the unveiling of a plaque to mark the site...
...dread foot & mouth disease.* The worst outbreak (1914-16) forced the U.S. to slaughter and burn or bury (in quicklime) 175,000 U.S. animals before it was licked. The next time the battle may not be won-even at such cost. Said Dr. M. R. Clarkson, Department of Agriculture scientist: "If the disease ever gets across the Rio Grande, it would cost the U.S. at least $1 billion a year. It will affect all parts of the livestock industry, and it would be almost impossible to check...
Professor Theodore Ropp, visiting lecturer from Duke University, takes over the third in a series of informal discussions sponsored by the John Reed Society tonight at 8 o'clock in the Winthrop House Common Room when he leads a discussion of "Marx as a Social Scientist...
...explanation for the increase came from Union College Physics Professor Vladimir Rojansky. Said he: "Russian increasingly will supplant French as the second language [after German] for the research scientist...