Word: algebraical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conferred on a man who hardly cares, and may be denied to another who strives most desperately for it. Guilt may overthrow a man who (by human standards) is unconscious that he has incurred any guilt. Chance, the irrational number by which man confesses the failure of his intellectual algebra, may throw a man off course for a whole lifetime, and even beyond the grave. "When you have once been misled by bells tolling in the night," wrote Kafka, "you can never find the right path again...
Professor MacLane, who will concentrate on the study of "the borderline between algebra and algebraic topography," did research work during the war with the Applied Mathematics Group at Columbia. An active member of several mathematical societies, he was on the Board ematical societies, he is on the oBard of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America...
...stage lines: "Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume breathes a life of gathering gloom." Every week after school, Fred went to Keith's to see the new show and pick up jokes and routines. He even began making up a few of his own. An early Allen (from algebra class): "Let X equal my father's signature...
Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick, lean, carefully tailored and 55, was booted out of high school in his native Superior, Wis. when he was 16, because he wanted to draw "and they made me take algebra and stupid history courses." He worked his way through the Chicago Art Institute by sweeping floors mornings, working in a cafeteria for his lunch, ushering in a theater at night. On the side, he sold so many cartoons (for $1 apiece) to the Chicago Daily News that he soon had a regular job. In 1913, he went to the Post-Dispatch, has been there ever since...
...From 8 to 8:30 she advises students who have special problems. At 8:30 she conducts a singing class. At 9 she puts 60 to 90 boys & girls through a gym routine that often includes intricate steps from her rich repertory of folk dances. Then she teaches geometry, algebra, English, physics, chemistry and a variety of foreign languages until 3:30, when it is time to go home to clean house and start Fred's supper. Fred spends his days on administrative chores, touring the schools, filling in as a teacher whenever necessary, and working on his sideline...