Word: savantes
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...British laboratory a white-haired savant bent, over a microscope, lifted a sad, tired face to the glare of a high-powered electric lamp, sighed. He plunged his hands deep into his dressing-gown pockets, sighed again. He was Dr. Faust, despondent, wanting to die, preparing the poison. In came an uninvited guest, no conventional red-tighted devil, but Monsieur Mephistopheles, sleek, well-groomed, bemonocled, his only tail the double portion of conventional evening dress...
...party plowed back across the Sahara, smitten sorely by sand- storms, but not before M. Maurice Reygasse, savant and Governor of the Department of Tebessa, had ingratiated himself with Amenokal Akhamouk, monarch of the Tuaregs (who only a few years ago scourged the desert, slew foreigners), to such an extent that a royal edict was issued to find and lay before white archeologists a manuscript containing, in several hundred sheets of parchment, the only known history of the Tuaregs. This should throw much light on the history of the Punic Carthaginians with whom, it is now established, the Tuaregs traded...
News item: "Cleopatra did not commit suicide through love, according to a Munich savant, but because the ancient Egyptians believed that death from an asp bite would insure apotheosis afterward...
...Cornell; Sir Max Muspratt, onetime Lord Mayor of Liverpool, foremost British indus- trial engineer; Dr. J. S. McHargue, head of the Kentucky Agricultural Station; T. A. Boyd of the General Motors Corporation; Professor H. Steenbock, chemical research head of the University of Wisconsin; Professor E. C. C. Baly, famed savant of the University of Liverpool. In the chair was Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, President of the Society, a man who invents. He has discovered processes for the separation of copper and cadmium, for the impregnation of wood, for the making of Velox paper, thus winning heavy honors, including several pounds...
...picturesque French "savant"- the name may properly be applied to him-Camille Flammarion (TIME, Aug. 11, BOOKS) was inclined, according to his nature, to take a more romantic view...