Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years ago, white-maned Albert Einstein sat down at his desk in Princeton, N.J., thought a moment and then wrote in careful longhand: "Here I sit in order to write, at the age of 67, something like my own obituary...
Actually, it was the start of Einstein's autobiography, scheduled for publication next fall. This week, as he turned 70, he allowed a few excerpts-on his own education-rto be published...
...father of general semantics was born in 1879-the same year, he likes to point out, as Einstein and Stalin. The son of a Polish mathematician, he served through World War I in the Russian Army, was wounded, finally got sent to the U.S. as an artillery expert. Later, he mortgaged his estate, and spent the rest of his fortune, and more than ten years, writing the knotty 800-page bible of general semantics, Science and Sanity...
...harsh air. China tried to reproduce 500 years of Western evolution in a few decades. Twentieth Century China was to have bombers before it had a good rail system, radios before it had more than a few telephones. Chinese shouted Communist slogans before they could read. Galileo and Einstein, Jefferson and Karl Marx came to China all at once. The nation's youth desperately wanted to grasp the future. What the future was, they did not know...
...misfortune that had suddenly made him special. When, after Johnny's first operation, the surgeon told him what he had, Johnny telephoned his friend, Reviewer Lewis Gannett, and reported proudly: "They drilled three holes right through my head." Two weeks later he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein on the curvature of the universe. When the Book-of-the-Month Club picked Gunther's then unfinished Inside U.S.A. (written largely during the costly attempts to save Johnny's life), he tried to cheer his father with, "Well, that solves the financial problem...