Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court to fight a postponement of his $24,000 salary suit against ex-employer Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Nose Drop King (Argyrol), he listened to Dr. Barnes reciting a list of Greek philosophers, announced to reporters that "he didn't pronounce one of them correctly." Cried Dr. Barnes to the press: "I'll tell you what's wrong with that guy-no I won't either. You might print...
...vote to call off the strike was unanimous. On the same day Private Albert Daggert, 19, wrote home from Fort Lewis, Wash. It said: "Tell Dad not to get too radical at work, for the fellows in the service need that stuff...
...Correspondent Albert Leitch handed him a fresh script, straightened him out. Cotton Ed chugged off again. Huffing & puffing through his old-style planter's mustache, old DuRant concluded his oration, turned to Leitch and bawled: "How'd I do?" A flushed engineer threw a switch, took Cotton...
Princeton, N.J. has one school whose teachers do not count on teaching their students a single solitary fact. It is the ten-year-old Institute for Advanced Study, which has no administrative connection with Princeton University. Its faculty of 16 includes Albert Einstein. Its 28 students do post-postgraduate research, have freely elected their teachers and studies. They are so expert in their fields that they are presumably aware of all the known facts involved. All that the Institute's teachers hope to do is to broaden and deepen their students' points of view toward their subjects...
...Albert Einstein has added to his effort to unify theories of gravitational and electrical forces an attempt to solve U.S. Navy mathematico-physical problems (TIME, July 5). His aureole of white hair droops in summer's heat, a string upholds his cheap blue denim pants. Says he: "Here we cook with water." Interpreted a colleague: "We perform no miracles." A current item of Einsteiniana titillating the Institute: on one of his blackboards bearing a brain-taxing mathematical equation, the charwoman found the word "Erase." On another blackboard, marked "Do not erase," was blazoned the formula...