Word: algebraical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate passed a bill last week which 1) made sense, 2) overjoyed a lot of people (and one pint-sized algebra teacher), 3) cost a mere $20,000,000. This sensational measure, which the House is expected to approve speedily, aroused no controversy at all. The paragon bill simply permitted the U.S. to pay two-thirds of the construction cost of unfinished sections of the Inter-American Highway between Mexico and Panama. The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will pay the other third...
...Candidates for appointment as flying cadets (who must have the equivalent of two years of college credits) learn algebra, trigonometry, history and other academic subjects at a number of Air Corps bases...
Daniel Fitzpatrick, 50, worked up into cartooning the hard way. Born in the industrial city of Superior, Wis., he was kicked out of high school at 16 because he spent his time drawing instead of studying algebra and history. In Chicago he found he could make money turning out comic strips for the Chicago Evening News at $1 apiece. Before he was 21 the Evening News had hired him to do front page cartoons. A year later he heard that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's cartoonist had quit, got the job, started out with a cartoon attacking...
Last week, as the Census Bureau organized its 1940 figures, a Harvard mathematician was studying a still unsolved problem in algebra unwittingly posed by the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Constitution says: "Representatives ... shall be apportioned among the several States ... according to their respective numbers . . . but each State shall have at least one Representative." "This problem," points out Harvard Mathematician Edward Vermilye Huntington, "has worried Congress into a state of great perplexity and bitter debate after every decennial census for over a hundred years." In a 41-page Senate Document he recently tackled the problem...
...Tuesday's meeting, two other new half-year courses were introduced had approved. Economics 118b is a seminar course dealing with "selected applications of statistics to problems of economic theory." Biology 111b concerning biometry relates the applications of statistics and algebra to biological problems of all kinds, particularly those of genetics. The course includes a study of the normal curve, goodness of fit, correlation coefficients, and the analysis of variance...