Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time their bustles gave way to hobble skirts; middy blouses came & went. Meanwhile, President "Princess Alice" Freeman, who first organized the college into 14 departments, resigned to marry a Harvard professor. After her came Mathematician Helen A. Shafer, who set up the system of majors, and portly Caroline Hazard, the great money-raiser, who surveyed her campus from a surrey with a fringe...
What about timing? Can the mathematician, with the help of large-scale computers, help us to make intelligent choices and avoid alternate periods of boom and bust? Computers can, Waugh said, to the extent that they will help us to foresee the probable results of the various economic policies up for consideration...
...coding box" consists of a six by ton foot panel of over 200 keys, each with a number or mathematical symbol on it, Using the keyboard with its familiar symbols, a mathematician can record on a magnetic tape all the commands the machine needs to solve his problem. Essentially, he "copies" his equations on the keys of the coding machine. When fed into the machine, his commands are then transferred from the magnetic tape to the sequence drum which then controls the operations necessary to solve the problem...
...draft of Seven Types of Ambiguity, which became a classic of modern literary criticism. His tutor, Semanticist I. A. Richards, had been exploring the wide range of meanings that various minds can find in the simplest verse. Empson took up the subject and exhausted it. Some readers complained Poet-Mathematician Empson had "read things into poetry that weren't there," erecting double or multiple meanings into a poetic principle...
...face of all this uproar many a police chief just decided to sit back and wait for the pyramids to collapse of themselves-an amateur mathematician figured it would take 16,777,216 players to keep a club going for 25 days...