Word: einstein
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...Homer to Einstein. St. John's was itself colonized in 1937 by explorers from the University of Chicago, who set out to prove that the soundest modern education is immersion in the classics. To combat specialization, all St. Johnnies take the same nonelective diet. Instead of training for jobs, they mull the perennial principles in the "100 Great Books" (now actually 168). In four years, they span more than 2,000 years of "the substance of human experience," from Homer's Iliad to Einstein's Theory of Relativity...
Died. Moe Smith, 73, who, with Partner Izzy Einstein, formed the 1920' funniest and most effective team of prohibition agents. Addicted to disguises-they posed variously as vegetable vendors, gravediggers and Democratic National Convention delegates-Izzy and Moe arrested 4,000 suspected bootleggers, confiscated an estimated 5,000,000 bottles of hooch; of a stroke; in Yonkers...
...leading U.S. geometrician and nephew of Economist Thorstein Veblen, member of the Princeton University faculty from 1905 until 1932, when he joined the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he was instrumental in selecting the famed research center's original mathematics staff, which included Albert Einstein and John von Neumann; of a heart attack; in Brooklin...
Each burst lasts only one second, but during the flight the protons circle the track 300,000 times and travel 150,000 miles. At the end of their trip they are moving at an infinitesimal fraction below the speed of light. Since Einstein's relativity requires that mass must increase with speed, the protons gain 30 times the mass that they have while at rest...
...physical and mental education count equally seemed an echo of the old notion ("back in the days of outdoor privies") that Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. "Live in our world of 1960," she urged as she cited such "notoriously poor athletes" as Edison and Einstein. "This might come as a great shock to you, but we are not going to beat the Communist threat with bows and arrows...