Word: pascale
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...more inventive than any of her nine sisters. Under her sway, the 19th century Frenchman Denis Vrain-Lucas fabricated more than 27,000 documents purportedly from the hands of Archimedes, Sappho, Judas Iscariot, Caesar, Charlemagne and others, overplaying his own hand only when he forged a letter in which Pascal took credit for discovering the law of gravity, rather than Newton. Joseph Cosey, the most prolific of American forgers, displayed meticulous attention to detail while adding to the extant records of U.S. history from Aaron Burr through Abraham Lincoln. Britain's William Henry Ireland successfully duplicated Shakespeare, passing...
...following juniors were elected Mildred H. An, a History and Literature concentrator from Winthrop House: Caren L. Grossbard, Psychology and Social Relations. Lowell: Pauline T Kim, Social Studies. Lowell: Janet B. Pascal, History and Literature, Dunster, Lin F. Shaw, Applied Mathematics. Mather, Judith H. Silverman, Mathematics. Winthrop: Deborah S. Stier, Psychology and Social Relations, South. Linda D. White, Biology, Winthrop...
Bigotry spewed into the open on Palm Sunday, when Washington, accompanied by former Vice President Walter Mondale, went to pray at St. Pascal Church at the invitation of the pastor. NIGGER DIE was freshly spray-painted on one door of the Roman Catholic church on the city's lily-white northwest side. "Carpetbagger!" an angry crowd of about 200 standing outside shouted at Mondale. A cordon of police was needed to protect the pair as they quickly departed...
...television by his opponent?" Yet his record is doubtless being used by some as a disingenuous rationale for voting against a black. In a satirical fantasy, Tribune Columnist Bill Granger describes Washington and Epton waking up one day with their skin colors miraculously switched: those in front of St. Pascal Church who had attacked Washington as a "crook" quickly reverse field and boo the now black Republican as a "Nixon lover...
...perhaps pained by the long hours his tax-collector father spent doing sums, a 19-year-old French prodigy named Blaise Pascal made an automatic device that could add or subtract with the turning of little wheels. But the clerks who spent their lives doing calculations in those days viewed Pascal's gadget as a job threat, and it never caught on. A short time later, the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz added the power of multiplication and division. Said he: "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculations...