Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nature of the Egg. One of the first such controversies in which he engaged was over the widely held notion of late 19th-Century science that a fertilized egg before starting to grow by cleavage (cell division)-and even for a time afterwards -was just so much undifferentiated raw material of life-like a lump of butter, or a pile of butter balls. Indeed one biologist did compare the early cleavage cells to "balls in a pile," and pronounced the act of cleavage at this stage to be "a mere sundering of homogeneous materials capable of any fate." The start...
When revolutionary France started to defend herself against foreign enemies at the beginning of the 19th Century her army consisted of an untrained rabble which, theoretically, should have been easy meat for the professional armies of surrounding nations. But the brains of Napoleon soon fused this rabble into a fine French army and, what is more, employed it to gain the greatest French victories since the 18th-Century days of Marshal Saxe...
Homer, Ryder and Eakins (May 1930), the first time these three 19th-Century U. S. painters were linked together...
Cincinnati 6, Boston 1; Philadelphia 7, Pittsburgh 2; New York 9, St. Louis 5; Brooklyn 9, Chinagn 2, (the game called and of 19th, darkness...
...sees "19th century philology" as harming scholarship by "burying the young student in 'research' before he knew what he was after. He was to dig it out (blind, ham-strung, as blacks in a diamond mine...