Word: savant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's Neff." said the savant. "Weir surrounded. Hand me my Papitchute. But before Bailey out, I'll say Harvard 24 Virginia...
...Donelli-one move!" exclaimed the Oriental savant as he Felt for his crystal Boyle. "If Pierce that we will have a Holler a game and I Gallagher down to work and Figueira winner...
...turned the same way for the same reason. Witches might be good or bad (i.e., they might practice white or black magic, or a mixture of both), but it never occurred even to intelligent Europeans as late as Shakespeare's day to question their existence. The great Elizabethan savant, Dr. Dee, was as much on the alert for phony witchery as the Roman Catholic Church is for phony miracles, but Dr. Dee used "magic" (by royal request) to divine the most propitious day for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and spent most of his life peering into a crystal...
Widely used during the war in Army and Navy pre-flight training, the test was developed six years ago by Dr. Lucien Brouha, formerly a physiologist in the Savant Study's fatigue laboratory...
Died. Maximilian Agassiz, 77, swank grandson of the famed 19th-Century naturalist Louis Agassiz and president of both Newport's Reading Room (stag) and Clambake Club (coed); after a ten-year illness; in Newport, R.I. His father, Harvard Savant Alexander Agassiz, helped develop Calumet & Hecla copper mines, left him a fortune out of which he paid many a newsboy's way through college...