Word: girondist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile off. Scientists have not decided (thinks Fort) whether stars are rushing away from or toward the earth; have failed to note any connection between the discovery of a new star and volcanic activity on the earth. Fort regards Einstein as a mistaken but useful revolutionist: "a Girondist of the Scientific Revolution . . . who has shown with his palsies the insecurities of that in Science which has been worshipfully regarded as the Most High...
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