Word: savants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...this is all admirable; it is the comment of an intelligent mind, and above all it displays a typically Gallic politeness toward those whose day of conquest is generally considered past; but when the savant undertakes to award prizes to those writers who mention heroines of notably advanced ages, he may fairly be suspected of harboring somewhere in the depths of his soul a sour-grapes complex, Balzac, for example, receives the Prix d'Excellence for six heroines adored anywhere between forty and forty-seven, and for one beloved at fifty-five. Any author who has a candidate over thirty...
Captain Bullock, of course, may really have made his cruise and his observations, like the savant Humboldt, in all good faith: but there is also a very even chance that he is a member of that other illustrious school so ably represented by the intrepid explorer, Captain Walter Traprock. If he is, he ought to be indicted, or something, for not only is Captain Traprock sufficient for his field, but also in recent weeks even his material has become slightly cloying...