panjandrum

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In the three decades since he helped achieve the first artificial release of nuclear energy, British Physicist Sir John Cockcroft has earned a truckload of honors and become the Grand Panjandrum of British atomic affairs.

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Intellectual Panjandrum Barzun rallies his peers to rout the termites of egalitarianism, mass education, artiness, science worship and similar pests that are destroying, as he sees it, the pillars of civilization.

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He mastered so many fields of learning that G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum."

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General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of military atomics, made a minor concession to the cause of science.

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The penalty for alarming the Little Panjandrum is a very severe one.”

From Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo by Farrow, G. E. (George Edward)