Word: mathematicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expulsion to carve their initials on the school belfry. While Father Junius Morgan was becoming a rich merchant banker in Boston and London, Pierpont went to school at Vevey, Switzerland ("makes fun of things," noted the schoolmaster); later to the University of Gottingen, where he proved himself a born mathematician, fond of fine clothing and the fair sex. "No one ever enjoyed shopping more than...
...months, in changes of solar radiation. Sterne finds that three of these periods may be attributable to statistical error,--those of 7 months, 8 months, and 34 months. But the remaining seven periods found by Dr. Abbot are not attributable to statistical error according to Sterne. The Harvard mathematician found that the odds against these seven periods being purely statistical error are 30,000 to 1, or higher...
...lower bracket, the form favorite was Bromwich, the two-hander who plays tennis like a man batting out fungoes. In the quarter-final he easily dismissed Gil Hunt, the Washington, D. C. mathematician who sometimes uses a tennis court to demonstrate how he can balance a pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn...
Irony of the Secretary's trouble is that most of it comes of his having struggled so long with the farm problem. Former farm editor, mathematician, agriobiologist, he spent 15 years before becoming Secretary of Agriculture in developing hybrid seed corn (through Pioneer Hi-Bred Seed Co., originally the Wallace family's), which increases yields 10 to 20%. In corn-growing Iowa, 79% of this year's acreage was planted with yield-increasing seed. Lately Henry Wallace on his daily walk to his office in Washington has taken to stopping in Washington Monument grounds to practice with...
...Raphaelite. With Painters Holman Hunt and J. E. Millais (whom Lear called "Uncle" when he didn't call him "Aunt"), Lear once shared a farmhouse studio. Close friends of Lear were Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson and his wife, with whom Lear had his closest feminine friendship. But Mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is so carefully unmentioned in Lear's long letters and diary that Author Davidson thinks Lear may have been jealous of the author of Alice in Wonderland...