Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leonard Wood, Jr.: "It is too bad that I haven't a few more brothers so that all of the Congressmen could be kept busy...
Secretary of War Weeks intimated that he might be able to answer most of the questions of investigators in regard to General Wood's administration, but that as regarded Leonard Wood, Jr., the Secretary was not concerned with the "mothers-in-law, the cousins, or the distant relations of persons in the military service of the country...
Though French, wielded by such masters of the interposed Gallicism as W. J. Locke, Booth Tarkington, Leonard Merrick, is the most insidious invader of the English novel, the other tongues are not backward in their occasional donation of a cryptic phrase. Villains are at almost any moment likely to break out with a brisk donner-wetter. What would a volume by Fannie Hurst be thought of without an occasional lapse into some good expressive Yiddish? Haunch, Paunch and Jowl is plentifully spattered with the colorfully Hebraic...
Mathematician Wins. A $1,000 prize, for the most valuable contribution to science presented at the current meetings, was awarded to Dr. Leonard E. Dickson, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. His achievement was a general mathematical theory including as special cases certain fundamental branches, such as quaternions and vector analysis. It is comparable in importance to the so-called calculus of Ricci and Levi Civita, which formed the mathematical basis for Einstein's general relativity theory. Unfortunately, these theories are so abstruse that only the trained mathematician can penetrate their mysteries. Laymen must take on faith...
...obvious Moran had not met his match. The latter's improvement since his illness a year ago is little short of startling. With the possible exception of Lew Tendler in 1922, he is the most logical contender in several years for the throne of Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard. Unhappily for him, Benny's habit is to render contenders decidedly illogical in actual combat. Moran and Leonard will probably meet next Summer in an outdoor fight...