Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...binary system.* He works his way into algebra with the equation T =C/4 + 37-the outside Fahrenheit temperature equals the number of times a cricket chirps in a quarter of a minute plus 37. After algebra come geometry, trigonometry, and the theory of probability that was discovered when Gambler Chevalier de Meré asked Pascal to figure out his chances of winning a dice game when interrupted at any particular moment. The high point of the series is a show on the new field of topology. Using every sort of trick-from figuring out how a boy can cover...
...killers inspected the remains with professional care. Then they joined the horrified barbers, customers and shoeshine boys who went bursting into a hall off the hotel lobby. They left Al as evidence that history repeats itself-he had gotten it in the same hotel in which Gambler Arnold Rothstein was shot back...
...probably breaking new ground on TV and, as such, ought to be encouraged. Unfortunately, in the case of The Mystery of Thirteen, it proved cold, cold ground. David Shaw's version of Robert Graves' They Hanged My Saintly Billy recounted the actual career of an English rogue, gambler and forger named Dr. William Palmer, who was hanged in 1856 for what was rumored as his thirteenth murder by poison. Graves argued that Palmer was the victim of circumstantial evidence. Intentionally or not, the TV version left no doubt of his guilt, and it tried to mitigate Palmer...
...Failed? Not unnaturally, Sister Ursula develops painful twinges of doubt as to whether or not she has a religious vocation. She plunges from her novitiate into professed nunhood in a "gambler's spirit." uttering a pathetic, near-blasphemous prayer: "O God−if there is a God−let what I am going to do be right . . ." She persists in trying to be a good nun for yet another decade−evidently from a stubborn prideful refusal to admit to herself that she has made a great mistake...
...sickly old widow, promptly persuaded her heirs to sell him the property on a "when-as-and-if" basis; the day after Standard brought in its first well, the widow died, whereupon Mike sold the property back to Standard at "a nice price-a very nice price." Like every gambler, he took some lickings and came back for more. Says Benedum: "All that counts is how the averages are working...