Is President Barrack Hussein Obama cited in "The Tunnel Thru the Air" - Inconclusive, but....

Is the President found in WD Gann's 1927 "The Tunnel Thru the Air?"  Remember the math...

• given a finite population of 15340 acrostic letters and 15340 telestic letters
• given that the letters are ordered and cannot be reordered (as in an acronym)
• given that the letters are not designed according to an order; the are random beginning and ends of each line

Then the probability of x letters spelling a particular word would be 1 divided by 26^x because there are 26 letters in the alphabet.  [Actually, there are nuances to this formulation because some letters are more likely to begin or end a word and numbers can be inserted in lieu of letters.  Nevertheless, the magnitude can be judged from the simple formulation using 26 letters.]

The probability of the occurrence of a 3-letter word is (1/26)^3 or 1 in 17576.

The probability of the occurrence of a 4-letter word is (1/26)^4 or 1 in 456976.

The probability of the occurrence of a 5-letter word is (1/26)^5 or 1 in 11881376.

The probability of the occurrence of a 6-letter word is (1/26)^6 or 1 in 308915776.

Obviously, there will be tons of 3 letters that randomly occur in the two populations of 15340 ordered letters.  But will the single word you want to find, like "Jim," .... will you find it?  The odds are not good.

If you want the find a 6-letter word....any 6-letter, rational, undeniable word, the odds seem pretty unlikely.  I don't find a single, rational 6-letter word that I can recognize in TTTTA....  except an obvious ordering in the first paragraph of the first narrative section of TTTTA.  I find the 6 e's:

If TTTTA is a book written without regard to the formulation of coded words, how might it be that I find the 6-letter and obviously fashioned 6 e's in red above?  And, I find the word Taito, a five-letter word as well; the site of, what many believe to have been, the most destructive earthquake in world history (greatest combined property and life destruction)?

So, when I see a 5-letter word, lacking only in a last letter or lacking vowels as many will so abbreviate a word, I ponder it.  For example, "enstn" identified by Danny:

When I see a 5-letter abbreviation which might be argued as not spelling a word, then I look for corroboration.  And sometimes, I find an elaborate story and time correlation that is hard to overlook as intentionally created; such as found in "Einstein's Cat."  

The subject of this essay; President Barrack Hussein Obama.  Did Mr. Gann foresee the 44th President (which might be the 43rd or the 39th depending on the 5 Presidents that were not elected according to this cute and insightful article found HERE)?  I find an improbable 4-letter word, lacking only the 'a' to spell the full last name of the President:

Corroboration?  I don't find any objective corroboration as yet, but I have not looked hard and I'm not likely to pursue further.  I do find find an echo of my own thinking in the narrative that causes me to believe Mr. Gann had foreseen situation of the world in our time.

But that's me; rather conservative.

Jim Ross