Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greeks and Romans were successively dominating the ancient world, for instance, their respective languages were concurrently universal. Latin remained the dominant language in the West until the Renaissance, when the rise of nationalism ended its universality. It then became an academic, but not spoken, tongue. As Gode illustrates, "When Newton interrupted the composition of his Latin Principia, it was roast beef and not caro bubula tosta' for which he asked...
BARE FEET IN THE PALACE (370 pp.) -Agnes Newton Keith-Little, Brown...
Hinging upon tonight's decision is the status of Luigi Einaudi '57, who was elected New England president of the NSA at its regional meeting Saturday in Newton. According to NSA rules, Einaudi cannot accept his new post if the College breaks its tie with the Association...
...notified that Einaudi wished to run for the N.S.A. regional post. By 10:00 a.m. Levin had secured the individual consent of enough Council members to phone Einaudi, giving him temporary appointment as an alternate Council delegate--just in time for him to be elected president at Newton...
...Groove Over. As Author Hogben approaches modern times, he takes his readers painlessly through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton, through Descartes to Karl Gauss. Just as painlessly, he introduces them to algebra, the laws of acceleration, the concepts of mass and weight, binary numbers, and the graph plottings of the parabola and the ellipse. But his major accomplishment will be to give his readers the notion of mathematics as a major part of their heritage...