Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this most Dada of the Dadaists resigned from the group, ostensibly because Dada was beginning to develop certain rational theories which led to Surrealism. He collaborated on a ballet with Composer Erik Satie, on a brilliant movie, Entr'acte, with René Clair, and, in the true Dada spirit, accepted the rosette of the Legion of Honor. Wealthy and well advertised by Gertrude Stein, in the last few years Picabia has rested on his reputation, yachting and developing an elegantly fretful manner. Last week Paris was shocked at 60-year-old Yachtsman Picabia's latest show...
...company arranged to pay to one Silas Williams, an attorney, under the style and guise of counsel fees, the sum of $10,000 . . . all of which said Williams shortly thereafter turned over to The Chattanooga Free Press in ostensible consideration for the issue to him of certain shares of stock...
Still significant, but no longer raging among scientists, is the Vitalism v. Mechanism controversy. Parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, has long been recognized in certain worms, crustaceans, plant lice, and many artificial parthenogenesis experiments have been performed with mechanical or chemical stimulation...
...experiment did not prove that "laboratory babies" were possible. Its significance lay rather in the fact that certain pathological tumors (teratomas) which contain hair, bone and even gland cells, may have developed from egg cells which received mechanical stimulation, started to become embryos. Further experimentation may even shed light on the development of common ovarian cysts...
Advertising, the flossy handmaiden of Big Business, has long tempted certain rapacious New Deal reformers. But with the U. S. still clinging to Freedom of the Press, nothing had been done about advertising (with the exception of liquor) until last week when Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold produced a scheme which, snorted Columnist David Lawrence, "makes the late Huey Long, who tried to put a tax on publications of large circulation, look like an amateur." Trust Buster Arnold's scheme was deftly dovetailed into the long-expected announcement by the Department of Justice that its anti-trust suits against...