Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheel barometer, conceived the idea of using a pendulum as a measure of gravity, helped famed Robert ("Boyle's Law") Boyle make his air pump. He clearly conceived the motion of heavenly bodies as a mechanical problem, but his conception was almost obliterated in the glory of Isaac Newton's formulation of the gravity laws. He was jealous of Newton, made violent attacks on him, resented all his life the fact that Newton's reputation far outshone...
...Unpredictable, inexhaustible, octogenarian George Bernard Shaw last week disclosed that he is at work on a historical play laid in the reign of Charles II. Said Shaw to sex-sniffing reporters: "Oh, forget about Nell Gwyn; this is going to be about really interesting people . . . Sir Isaac Newton, for instance...
Missing since Thursday when he packed up and left college, the wherabouts of Robert Isaac Myerson '42 of Wigglesworth Hall and Brooklyn, New York, were still unknown last night...
...Burden to their Parents or Country" in which he calmly unfolded a grotesque scheme whereby delectable one-year-old youngsters be sold for food--to be "Stewed, Roasted, Baked, or Boiled." He grew tired of the endless predictions of a well-known astronomer named Partridge. So, posing as Isaac Bickerstaff, astronomer, he made some "Predictions for the Year 1708" which solemnly forecast the immediate demise of Astronomer Partridge in one of the greatest hoaxes of the time. He outraged prim Queen Anne by his vulgarity in "The Tale of a Tub" which cost him preferment. But his "Drapier's Letters...
While they are in power, Europe's dictators, premiers and tycoons seem to be sitting solidly on their thrones, or behind them. Just how rapidly they can lose their strength, how fast and far they can fall, and how quickly they can be forgotten, is demonstrated in Isaac Marcosson's reminiscences of Europe's heroes of 15 years ago. The work of a veteran Sateve-post contributor, Turbulent Years' 18 chapters include sketches of Trotsky, Sun Yatsen, Calles, an essay on dictators in general, as Marcosson saw them. Some samples...