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Who is the mystery solitary invetor that was overshadowed in this SAT Reading passage? Sounds ominous enough.
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- 00:02
okay just two more in Ike here we go refers to the solitary infant or being
- 00:07
overshadowed definitely a trivia primarily to what I do what all right so [text on screen]
- 00:12
let's go back to 78 here and just see what their yammering about okay let me
- 00:16
to date a solitary inventory tapering in his job is been overshadowed by task
- 00:18
force the scientists in laboratories in testing field okay so the big answer
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- 00:22
it's C Eisenhower's a fan of the underdog not the over cat his reference [president in the white house]
- 00:27
to the solitary inventor being overshadowed by giant government funded
- 00:32
task forces sounds that way at least you know he's rootin for the crazy one in a
- 00:37
million lottery ticket shot right instead of a billion dollar investment [hand scratches lottery ticket]
- 00:41
to make the new yeah well he was probably a fan of wacky inventors like
- 00:44
Ben Franklin and Nikola Tesla and a few others we could name hello Elon Musk [famous people]
- 00:49
yeah you'll be in that group someday too he has tons of respect for the underdog
- 00:52
which is why he's a little sad that his underdog didn't win big science did ya
- 00:58
sorry there pal 10,000 brainiacs and a billion dollars wins against whoever the
- 01:02
most clever farmer is these days sorry just keeping it real eisenhower [farming equipment]
- 01:06
doesn't feel like big science is necessarily an improvement yeah have a
- 01:10
little farmer make the bomb which the reader can infer from the negative [barn explodes]
- 01:15
connotation of overshadowed there oh poor farmer he also doesn't go so far as
- 01:19
to say that it's totally a bad thing he likely feels it's similar to the
- 01:24
military issue it's ugly but necessary you know sort of like those late-night [a-bomb]
- 01:28
talk show host
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