Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since the Doctor and the President do not speak each other's language, Fran Doktor Einstein had to translate when her learned husband said, 'Boating and sailing are my principal hobbies...
...Einstein's law states that if a gram of matter could be turned into energy it would yield 2 (followed by 13 ciphers) calories. Sir Arthur Eddington has used this fact to show that the energy of the sun may be derived from the annihilation of matter. Although this theory has not been entirely disapproved, it is doubtful whether matter can be destroyed so easily...
Most honored guests at the White House last week were Herr Doktor & Frau Albert Einstein. They dined and spent the night, visited the President's office to see his collection of ship prints. Since the Doctor and the President do not speak each other's language, Frau Doktor Einstein had to translate when her learned husband said, "Boating and sailing are my principal hobbies...
Like a student cramming for an examination, Scientist Albert Einstein shut himself up in a room of Adolph Lewisohn's New York home one afternoon last week and practiced three hours on his violin. That evening Fiddler Einstein was to play in a concert for the benefit of his scientist friends in Berlin. Old Mr. Lewisohn made his servants tiptoe through the halls, kept mousey quiet himself, not once attempting to entertain his ever-so-important guest with the German folk-songs he dearly loves to sing...
Reporters were Einstein's chief worry. He was to play in Bach's Third Concerto for Two Violins, Beethoven's Allegretto for Piano, Violin and 'Cello, Mozart's G Major Quartet. He did not want any "funny business" in the papers, to have it said that his head wagged this way and that, that he flourished his bow or held it pinched. The newshawks, in evening dress for the occasion, agreed to behave. But afterward they reported that Einstein is a capable fiddler, that he became so absorbed in the music that with...