Word: maths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the people of Cuttack, 220 miles southwest of Calcutta, got a chance to test the truth of Nehru's warning. For a long time there had been talk of strange goings-on at the Kaliaboda math near by. A math is a holy place, but the one at Kaliaboda looked more Uke a fortress. Its walls were guarded by archers, and out of its portals from time to time issued a number of besotted sadhus who beat up the local inhabitants. When women began disappearing, people of the surrounding villages demanded that the police look into...
Every night last week, 16-year-old Lewis Macfarlane, a tall, intent Seattle high-school senior, carefully trained his homemade 8-in. telescope on a northeastern sector of the star-sprinkled sky. Now and then he paused to check his notes with fellow sky-watcher Karl Krienke, 24, a math teacher at Seattle Pacific College. They were compiling a log-speed, appearance, location-on Comet 1955F, and their unmistakable pride came from the fact that they had just discovered the new comet themselves...
...psychologist. He earned an M.A. at Columbia University, switched to mathematics. Working as a clerk by day, he studied at Brooklyn College at night, eventually quit his job to study full time at Columbia for his doctorate. Meanwhile, he devised a simplified code to help other blind math students. Last week, having filled in as an instructor at Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, and having written 150 different campuses for a permanent job, Abraham Nemeth heard from Detroit that his ambition would be fulfilled at last...
...Mikoyan (1920). The official Soviet biography makes Bulganin a proletarian, born of a "worker's family," but his father was probably a clerk, and sufficiently beyond the proletariat to be able to send his boy Nikolai to technical high school, where he got a solid grounding in math, physics and German...
Flynn's victory came despite his head-on collision with an inner tube within the first quarter mile of the mile long race. Although he stopped dead, the House singles champion recovered quickly enough to pass Oxford oarsman Harry Quick 1GBA freshman Bart Thomas, senior Ned Ames, and math instructor Hartley Rogers...