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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individual). In general, the life history of every individual animal is but an abbreviation of his racial history. This is true of man as of the rest of the animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whence Man? | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

When M. Dzierzynzky informed him that there was little chance of his being released, he vaulted the sill of his cell window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Suicide | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

General Boris Savinkov, the Terrible, ended his life by jumping from the window of his prison cell in the State Political Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Suicide | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...pigeons' eggs were predominantly male. In spring and summer, small thyroids, female pigeons. One female, after hatching many clutches, actually turned male, sired a brood. (The significance of this research was that the thyroid principle, thyroxin, appeared to be more fundamentally connected with sex determination than the sex-cell chromosomes-Dr. Oscar Riddle, Carnegie Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Academy | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...reputation chased him from one pulpit to another, he found reasons for taking up counterfeiting: men had to have currency and he a living. Why, he would do mankind a service and after he had got rich, succor the poor! But his first bad dollars bought him a cell; and for several years he had to concentrate on breaking jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Boy | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

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