Word: savant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adolphus Ward and George Peabody Gooch, heading an imposing list of Cambridge dons, with here and there an "alien savant," have contributed a work of significance which is consistent in its excellence of quality and in its forceful authority with any work that has yet emanated from that seat of learning, universitas cantabrigiensis...
...bobs sex determination again (TIME, July 9), and will bob up until it is settled. Now Dr. Isaac Fried, CzechoSlovakian savant, after extensive experiments in Prague and under Professor Devraignes in Paris, asserts that he can diagnose the sex of a child four months before birth. His method is based on a blood reaction similar to the Wassermann test, but no further details are vouchsafed. The French Academy of Medicine appointed a committee of inquiry. Dr. Fried is probably a reputable scientist, but cranks innumerable have flourished on this same subject. Vide Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas, "Psy.D., Ph.D.," of Rochester...
Whenever some public-spirited savant brings forward a method of dealing out information wholesale, by means of "predigested news" or "educational films", or "fifteen minute-a-day" reading courses, there is usually more or less definite disparagement by those who are devoted to the "good old days" and apparently want every man to decipher original Greek manuscripts for himself. A case in point is the making by the Yale Press of a motion picture to cover American history, from its earliest beginnings to the present. This film is labelled with the damning title of "tabloid history"; and the intellectually elite...
...appearance in English of The Life of the Scorpion,* the capstone in the great ten-volume series of Souvenirs Entomologiques, together with the centenary of his birth (1823) brings to mind again the life labor of Jean Henri Fabre, " the insects' Homer," whom Darwin called "a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." Fabre died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion...
...Charles X and Louis Philippe, through the Second Republic, the regime of Louis Napoleon, through the first 52 years of the Third Republic. He was born at Foix in the Ariege, on November 14, 1828, was the son of Louis Claud de Saulces de Freycinet, celebrated navigator and savant, and belonged to an old Protestant family of Dauphiny?one of the most illustrious in France...