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Word: einsteins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willing to bet practically anything that TIME will elect either Roosevelt or Churchill as Man of the Half-Century. Yet surely the scientific discoveries of Albert Einstein have had a much more far-reaching effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...first 50 years of the century could be told in the story and world outlook of one man, and he ends a period-J. Pierpont Morgan. The man who will most influence the next 50 years is . . . Albert Einstein. Beyond that . . . there had best be another Christ, or at least a more far-reaching Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...whether the success of a psychodrama depended on the intuitive Powers of the director, Dr. Moreno said that even Albert Einstein had to rely something on hunches...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...feel sure that neither Michelangelo nor Mozart, neither Newton nor Hume nor Gauss nor Einstein gave a conscious thought to social consequences while they were engaged in their labors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berlin, Ex-Harvard Lecturer, Cites Faults of Universities | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...poor-white psychology that enables him to unravel his county's crimes. Up to a point he is both likeable and credible-a Yoknapatawpha County Sherlock Holmes-but Faulkner runs him to the ground by overloading him with unnecessary and undemonstrated learning ("a Harvard graduate . . . who could discuss Einstein with college professors") and with too much folksy moralizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yoknapatawpha Sherlock | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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