Word: scientists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Statistics appearing in The Builders of America by Ellsworth Huntington, Yale social scientist, and Leon F. Whitney, eugenist, show that for every 20 clergymen one clergyman's son is listed in Who's Who, whereas the proportion for other professions is 46 to 1; for skilled labor 1,600 to 1; for unskilled labor 48,000 to 1 (figures based on 1922-23 edition of Who's Who). Famed sons of clergymen: Henry Van Dyke, William Lyon Phelps, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Otis Skinner, John Grier Hibbeii, Irving Fisher, Charles Evans Hughes...
With this conception of an interspacial sea of turbulent radiation, Mr. MacKaye was able to adduce 17 phenomena which the relativists describe with their inconstant dimensions, but which he believed could be measured with the classical constants of time, space and motion. Scientist MacKaye, 57, is brother to Percy Wallace MacKaye, dramatist, poet, lecturer, esthete, and Hazel MacKaye, producer of esthetic pageants. A half-brother is Arthur Loring MacKaye, retired newspaper editor (Hilo Daily Tribune, Hawaii). All four are versatile writers...
...legs. They could calculate something harder than that from sufficient data-the whorling paths of cream as it pours into a breakfast cup of coffee, for example. Factors are what the mathematician asks for. He can describe more accurately than the man in the street or the academic scientist what will happen from combinations of those factors. A classic case: Albert Einstein's prediction of starlight bending...
...common in most educational pictures. Realizing that the common tendency has been to present subjects from an unusual angle with the result of sacrificing many points of importance, he has tried to combine the showman's technical knowledge of motion picture taking with the information of the trained scientist...
...even more inconvenienced by having to eat in the Square for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday breakfast, but he is a true scientist and 10, on Saturday night he is rewarded, for his six lunches, six dinners and two breakfasts add up to $9.00. At last he has beaten the game...