Word: einstein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jesus knew nothing of these technicalities. One searches the Gospels in vain for any blueprint, any N.R.A. code, any planned economy, any knowledge of Blackstone or Einstein. Yet Christ's simple words have made and unmade nations, determined the lives and destinies of untold millions of people, and have been the controlling influence in history for nearly 2000 years. Why? Because behind his simple words throbbed the power of a unique, unconquerable, divine spirit. Behind the veil of utter simplicity shone the glory and majesty of a deathless ideal which made men say when once they saw it, "When...
...world has at last overcome his aversion to publicity to permit a collection of various speeches and papers of his to be published in this book. It is avowedly an effort on the part of a friend to fore stall any misguided attacks on the personality of Einstein such as those to which most prominent men are subject. The purpose has been amply filled for we now have a record of his important acts and they reveal the character of the man as clearly as would a series of letters to his wife and closest friends...
Angry because five students of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton had received New York City substitute teachers' licenses without going through regular channels, the City's Unemployed Teachers Association addressed a hot letter of complaint to Pundit Albert Einstein. He is the Institute's most famed member. Last week Dr. Einstein quietly squelched the Unemployed Teachers as follows...
...Author. Born in a comfortable middle-class family at Ulm, on the Danube, in 1879, Albert Einstein spent his youth in Munich, where his father was part-owner of an electrotechnical plant. When Albert was 15, family reverses took the Einsteins to Milan. There he left school to study art, then to Zurich to learn how to become a breadwinning engineer. In 1902 he got a job in the Bern Patent Office as engineer and technical adviser. Three years later, when he was 26, he published his cosmos-shaking Special Theory of Relativity in the Annals of Physics. His General...
Short, rotund, with a greying golliwogg mop of hair, Einstein hates to wear a hat, likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...