Word: asinorum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...print the correction! A month or two ago you blundered on "pons asinorum." Some half-baked brain sent in a letter attempting to correct you ; the correction was worse than your original error. I sent you a letter straightening the thing out. You did not print...
...Pons Asinorum...
...TIME, Jan. 17] the Pons Asinorum is the proposition stating the sum of the squares on the sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse. This is the Pathagerean Theorem. The Pons Asinorum states that if two sides of a triangle are equal the angles opposite these sides are equal. Pons refers to the figure used to prove the proposition...
...word was coined, "Funda-monkeyist," applied by the bill's friends to patient Bishop Charles Edward Locke of the Methodist Church, who replied, "This whole anti-Evolution business is getting tiresome . . . has no more to do with personal religion than the Pons Asinorum...