Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre of London was more easily said than done." In all cases the sex organs of those abnormally disturbed birds were larger and more fit for propagation than the sex organs of normal birds. The chain of physiological events which causes such sex stimulation is not altogether clear. In the case of light, it seems "that light falling upon the eye . . . stimulates the pituitary which in turn activates the gonads." Besides influencing birds, light "has also been shown to be effective in certain mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish...
...affecting greeting given me on may arrival was not a bad cordial people reflecting in may ways the character of their surroundings. I suppose our learned psychologists think more of glands than geography, but here is a people living on this lovely mountain slope, snow-rimmed Mt. Etna clear in the distance, the Mediterranean below; oranges, almonds, lemons and flowers of every variety growing in abundance--and nothing much more important to do but work their donkeys, have babies, and cheat Americans...
...little essays: Nature and Life, which unfortunately Santayana has not seen. One cannot say that Professor Whitehead and Santayana are in philosophical agreement on many points. But I can assure you in one way they're absolutely alike: Both call Bertram Russell, "Berty". But even here all is not clear: For I understood from Santayana that it was he who gave Mr. Russell that name; but if I remember correctly Professor Whitehead told me that he himself first called Russell "Berty". It seems to me this is a unique opportunity for our foremost philosophers to come to terms on some...
...year the new four-motored transports scheduled for U. S. airways will need far more room for landing and taking off than do present planes. The Bureau plans to set up three airport classifications-super-terminals with runways of 4,000 ft. in four directions, plus two miles of clear approaches; terminals with 3,500-ft. runways; limited terminals with 2,200-ft. runways. This means that such important stops as New ark, Detroit, Washington, Chicago, Kan sas City, St. Louis and Portland,. Ore. would be "limited" ports unless greatly improved...
...history, according to Ortega, consists of a period of amalgamation and a period of disintegration. Spain has been disintegrating since 1580, when Philip II conquered Portugal. If the process of history could be telescoped like the cinema of a growing plant, "the history of Spain takes on the clear expressiveness of a gesture, and the modern incidents with which the vast attitude is ending are as self-explanatory as cheeks marked by anguish or a hand that falls exhausted." Spain's last 300 years Ortega calls a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . today we are not so much...