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Word: einstein (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctrines, "such as the racial nonsense of the Nazis," as Boas put it. Agents of Fascism were seen to be increasingly active, and Boas urged that his colleagues join with men of "good will" to defend democracy, and avoid the fate which was meted out to men like Albert Einstein, James Franck, and Thomas Mann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Resolution Urges Scientists to War On Fascist Forces | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

Appreciate greatly your generous effort as an aid in emergency and has humanitarian attitude --Albert Einstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Messages by Wire . . . | 12/6/1938 | See Source »

Telegrams commending the drive continued to pour into the offices of the Committee in Adams House. Albert Einstein, a world-renowned mathematician and himself a German refugee, wired "Appreciate greatly your generous effort as aid in emergency and as humanitarian attitude." Frances Farmer, Broadway and Hollywood star, sent her best wishes, as did Helen Hayes, the first lady of the stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refugee Committee Drive for Funds Receives Contributions, Commendations by Dignitaries | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

...case a whole large nation," says he, "mass hysterias, panics, fears and what not, are becoming increasingly a greater neuro-semantic menace than any plague has been." Whether General Semantics will become a cult such as technocracy, or will rank in historic importance with the work of Aristotle and Einstein, as not a few scientists believe, it is spreading rapidly in the U. S. Already 3,000 copies of Science and Sanity, an extraordinarily difficult book of 781 pages, have been sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: General Semantics | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Probably Professor Einstein could explain it all, but I don't see how you can print the news before it happens, and your explanation is childish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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