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Word: logarithm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Observatory, backed his co-lecturer of Natural Sciences 9, claiming that students' "lack of adequate training in mathematics was appalling" and that many "blush at the sight of a logarithm...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Education Dean Asks Cooperation; Scientists Seek More Fundamentals | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...another dog after the scraps from Annie Get Your Gun's box-office banquet. Instead of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill, the lovers in this opus are Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok, together with such a subsidiary tangle of interlocking triangles that the audience may need a logarithm table to figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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