Word: newcomb
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Andrew M. Gleason, assistant professor of Mathematics, received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize at the association's annual meeting in St. Louis on November 30 for his paper discussing "natural coordinate systems." His solution to a problem that was first propounded in 1900 by the great modern mathematician David Hilbert, is expected to provide a unified field theory between the forces operating within the universe as a whole and the forces within the nuclei of the atoms. Dr. Albert Einstein has been seeking such a theory for the past 30 years...
...other present-day bogey-men. I hope that, if elected, Stevenson will not feel indebted to the man whose administration will probably go down as one of four most corrupt. His record so far in resisting pressures, contrary to his words, does not speak well for him. W. A. Newcomb...