Word: savant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it is rumored on the campus that Miss True's salary is one that many a savant would be glad to have, she lives most simply, and is most human and unassuming. Her work is a triumph for womankind...
...Dewey is a bridgebuilder. Seeing the gulf between savant and citizen, he works to span it, building out on one side by educating the plain man, on the other by rousing the pedant to action...
...Pressburg, last week, judges sat in solemn conclave over nervous ascetic Professor Bela Tuka, famed savant, charged with high treason. Specific treason: attempting to carve Slovakia out of Czechoslovakia. Despite the fact that an alleged Hungarian spy, Anton Mras, swore loudly that his original testimony against Professor Tuka was false, Bela Tuka was sentenced to 15 years in penal servitude...
...upon the new project in the immediate future. The new Faculty Club will probably be completed and ready for occupancy by September of 1930 if present indications may be taken at face value, and in its completed form will provide a meeting place and all the conveniences of a savant organization for approximately 1000 members...
...Japanese Savant to Come Here...