Word: savants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wesleyan University, for safekeeping, photographing and occasional exhibiting, arrived last week eight pages of cramped and cryptic handwriting. The bushywooled savant whose pen had scratched, squiggled, crossed out and corrected was no less a personage than Germany's Albert Einstein. These pages were the original manuscript of his Zur Ein-heitlichen Feld-Theorie (TIME...
...Budge, whose honors and attributes take up more than a full column and a half in the British Who's Who, is at present preparing a brief, definitive me morial biography of Cat Mike, soon to appear in limited edition from a London publishing house. Other books by Savant Sir Ernest Budge include: The Coptic History of Elijah the Tishbite; The Laughable Stories of Bar-Hebraeus ; An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary; The Book of the Dead; The Book of the Bee; and The Mummy (Enlarged Edition...
...erroneous U. S. impression that Soviet housewives have no servants was corrected, last week, by earnest, diligent Commissar of Health Nikolai A. Semashko in somewhat startling fashion. With the total candor of an authentic savant, Comrade Semashko stated...
Near Lake Savant, Ontario, an amorous redskin sang songs to his Indian maiden. Bored, she fled into the woods with a more desirable suitor. The jilted, jealous brave methodically set about firing the entire forest area. Detected by a forest ranger, he retreated; was later arrested by the famed inescapable redshirt police...
...sportive and popular Teuton savant, Count Hermann Keyserling,* has said: "The two contributions of America to world culture are Professor Dewey and Negro jazz...