Word: savantes
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...decidedly a red herring. The Seiyukai Party, knowing the militarist-dominated Cabinet to be against them, insinuated in their speeches that the Government had not sufficiently rejected, outlawed and blasted the teaching of famed Dr. Tatsukichi Minobe. As a professor of the Imperial University at Tokyo, this legal savant some 30 years ago produced three books on the Japanese Imperial Constitution and the status of the Emperor. That status, in one word, is divine. Dr. Minobe made the mistake of adorning it with other words and blaspheming His Majesty to the extent of writing that the Son of Heaven...
...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...
...native France. And, as usual, what the Press wanted to hear him talk about was his famed assistant at the Institute. The small, bald, 62-year-old scientist duly obliged: "Lindbergh is considered . . . exclusively as a flyer . . . but he is much more than that. He is a great savant. Men who achieve such things are capable of accomplishments in all domains...
...been to 125 pious folk meeting in Detroit last week, the fact remains that in most U. S. minds Emanuel Swedenborg and his doctrines are sadly confused with advice to the married, physical culture, Rosicrucianism and patent can-openers. That is because most citizens have met the great Scandinavian savant only as a tiny picture in the back pages of popular magazines, tucked away in one-inch advertisements offering HEAVEN AND HELL, "632 page book treating of the Life after Death...
...obliged to decide which of five significant meetings they would attend and report: The American Chemical Society in Manhattan, the American Association of Physical Anthropology in Philadelphia, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society in Washington, the American Association on Mental Deficiency in Chicago. Consequently a savant's paper had to be of rare interest to attract attention. Here follow summaries of some pertaining to Medicine and the business of living...