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Page 372
... word calculate . The branch of mathematics which we call calculus was named directly from the little counting stone of ancient Rome . Every day you use hundreds of words whose origins are as interesting and surprising as this . You will ...
... word calculate . The branch of mathematics which we call calculus was named directly from the little counting stone of ancient Rome . Every day you use hundreds of words whose origins are as interesting and surprising as this . You will ...
Page 557
... word lover who rejoices in the tropical luxuriance of our vast realm of words . But each and all feel the inadequacy of words , or their own inadequacy in linking the word with the thought . Everybody who puts pen to paper knows the ...
... word lover who rejoices in the tropical luxuriance of our vast realm of words . But each and all feel the inadequacy of words , or their own inadequacy in linking the word with the thought . Everybody who puts pen to paper knows the ...
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... words as alge- braical expressions . The enrichment of language by misprints , mistranslations , and misunderstandings is a curious chapter of word history , but its con- sideration would take me too far from our subject . Just as the ...
... words as alge- braical expressions . The enrichment of language by misprints , mistranslations , and misunderstandings is a curious chapter of word history , but its con- sideration would take me too far from our subject . Just as the ...
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