Word: californianism
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Guessers about the origin of life on Earth last week hearkened when a distinguished Californian announced the discovery of bacteria in meteorites. For lack of precise facts, some guessers have placed life, with meteors, sunshine, starshine and cosmic rays, as an extramundane intrusion. Professor Charles Bernard Lipman, the booming, moon-faced plant-physiologist who is dean of the University of California's graduate division, now thinks such guessers have been correct. From several sources he acquired meteorites (meteors which landed intact on Earth). These he doused, scrubbed, seared and otherwise sterilized, then pulverized in sterile mortars. The dust...
Leaving his concrete bed on the floor of a Pennsylvania jail, a young Californian talked of going home to join his father in an impoverished cleaning business. Said he: "I don't want a lot of money. I'd just like to be a well-to-do, decent business...
...Western insurgents can count on him no more than can the Old Guard. He plumes himself on his Progressivism, yet he is narrowly nationalistic to the core. When he entered the Senate he promptly enlisted in the "Battalion of Death" against the Versailles Treaty. Because like many another Californian he hates & fears Japan, he believes in the biggest possible Navy for the U. S. and therefore fought the London Naval Treaty (1930) almost singlehanded. He dislikes all foreign powers, suspects them of sinister plots against the U. S. Mention of the World Court infuriates him. His overseas outlook is almost...
...domestic legislator, his greatest single achievement was the Boulder Canyon Project Act which he turned into an onslaught upon the 'Tower Trust." [His satisfaction soured when the project's name was changed to Hoover Dam.] As a good Californian, he votes for top-notch duties to protect Californian products, seeks to exclude all Filipinos...
...which could only have been caused by a washout in some overtaxed rain shower machine. After all it does rain in Wisconsin and Cambridge, too. And they have mud in Russia. Besides this precipitation the stage hands are constantly showing off other wonders of cinematic engineering, giving a very Californian air to the island of Pago Pago in the gulf of Borneo...