Word: euclid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the new, bland, stiff-collared president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Very Rev. Jeremiah Joseph Callahan.* declared "the problem can easily be solved by plane geometry." He said he had done it in less than two months after the June semester closed. His mathematical reputation (his book Euclid or Einstein? on parallelism is to be published next month) gives prestige to his statement. The Callahan trisection depends "on the geometry of a plane figure that is not treated in Euclid, or in those modern works that are based on Euclid. When certain theorems concerning this figure are demonstrated...
...diverted much wealth from his vast iron ore, coal and steel business (Pickands, Mather & Co.). Lakeside has long been the teaching hospital for Western Reserve University's school of medicine. The two institutions used to be downtown, a half-mile from Mr. Mather's mansion on lower Euclid Avenue. The increase of smoky Cleveland factories and busy commercial buildings a generation ago drove the first families to the city's eastern outskirts. But Mr. Mather still lives downtown...
...John Davison Rockefeller was elected "Knight of the Kingdom of God" for his "distinguished service to humanity," by Euclid Ave. Baptist Church, Cleveland, on the 100th anniversary of the Cleveland Baptist Association fortnight...
...fact that he was broke. At any rate, he interrupted the conversation to telephone his wife that he would be "a little late for dinner." Then he marched from "The Statesman's Window" to obscurity. Shortly before 6 o'clock that night he was seen at a Euclid Village tourist restaurant and was not seen again. Three days later his wife reported his disappearance to the police...
...each morning before breakfast I take you, like a dear pill." The New York Times editorialized: ". . . A baking company in Philadelphia makes its pies square. . . . There will still be old fashioned pie-eaters to object that the new model gives a much greater proportion of crust to filling (see Euclid on area of circles). . . ." To this Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed advertising man and author, replied in a letter: "Square pies are not new. . . . My mother always baked her pies in square tins, or rather oblong rectangles. There were eight mouths in the family, and the standard circular pie cut into...