Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spectacular was the defeat of Socialist leader Leon Blum, though his party made slight gains. All important members of the Poincare Sacred Union Cabinet regained their Chamber seats, including famed mathematician and War minister Paul Painlevé whose re-election seemed doubtful last fortnight (TIME, April 30). Finally a flurry was caused by the election from Alsace-Lorraine of three candidates who desire for their homeland a regional government, semi-independent of France. Since the Prime Minister had personally appealed to Alsace-Lorrainers to show themselves "French without reserve, without consideration, without reticence!" (TIME, Feb. 27) the three elected Regionalists...
That very great mathematician War Minister Paul Painlevétwice Premier of France during 1925, solved last week an equation in army discipline wherein the uncertain quantity was une femme...
...apply to the joke by Alice Jr.'s father, Colyumist Hope of the New York Herald-Tribune. Though his verse falls far short of Lewis Carroll's the narrative (packed as it is with social & political quips, flagrant puns and rare etymology) does credit to the English mathematician, and surpasses in satire more serious-minded modern U. S. Jeremiads. So also Rea Irvin's illustrations, which are excellently done...
...years. These men include Minister of Education Edouard Herriot, who has bungled so often as Prime Minister, Louis Loucheur "the richest man in France," and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut. Their orbit usually encompasses such more independent socialists as famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and that great mathematician War Minister Paul Painlev...
...that qualities of good and evil are inherent in the number 7 and the number 13 respectively, has been virtually abandoned; human ingenuity has turned rather to a study of numbers in their relation to each other. While the mystic has discovered that numbers in themselves signify nothing, the mathematician has found that numbers in series or in combinations may mean a great deal...