Word: savant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have to be a mon ster vocabulary requiring a lifetime to master. Dr. Neurath feels that this Tower of Babel can be overstepped by developing a common grammar of science-a unified manner of scientific exposition-so that one savant can understand another if he looks up the unfamiliar words...
Although modern freethinkers have gibed that the extant pieces, put together, would be as big as a battleship, in 1870 a French savant named Rohault de Fleury catalogued the known relics of the Cross, found that their total bulk was less than 4,000,000 cu. mm. By his calculations, the Cross measured...
Nevertheless, when no less a savant than Aldous Huxley went to Hollywood, he tried to find out just what made Walt Disney do the kind of work he does. Mr. Disney was not much help. "Hell, Doc," he said, knitting his eloquent brows, "I don't know. We just try to make a good picture. And then the professors come along and tell us what...
...times of eclipses years ahead, laymen are surprised when the prophecies are a few miles or a few seconds in error. Last week in Peru Dr. Serge A. Korff of the Carnegie Institution reported that the eclipse lasted ten seconds longer than the computations called for, and a Japanese savant declared that it began ten seconds later than expected. The fault is not with human mathematics, but with a mysterious wobbling of the moon from its orbit...
...what the status of the Emperor is, any more than a Christian can be precise on the status of God. As the votes were being counted last week, two Japanese armed with a letter apparently signed by a magistrate got past Dr. Minobe's police guards, chased the savant out of his house, put a bullet through Dr. Minobe's right foot before they were overpowered...