Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crack at Harvey Smith, president of a Townsend Plan club in Covington, Ky., who claims to represent 1,000 clubs "dissatisfied with the way the movement is being run . . . by one man." Harvey Smith sued Dr. Townsend for squelching him, had him served on the platform with a summons...
...head of its waiting list for both Atlantic and Pacific crossings, then only misty dreams. Before taking off for Siberia in 1935, Will Rogers tailed Pan American, asked if he could get back in time for the first Pacific flight. He could have, easily-but for the crack-up in lonely Point Barrow, Alaska, which killed him and his pilot, Wiley Post...
...cracks are well remembered, for although he is not disputatious as scientists go, he has an unusual record for getting into scientific controversies, usually on the unpopular side of a question. He has an even more unusual record of emerging from such controversies with 1) a crack that demolished his opponents and 2) agreement by scientific opinion that he was right from the beginning...
...manual skill) can be inherited. Conklin defended the opposite view, boldly stated that inherited characteristics are determined solely by the germ plasm. In the course of time biology gave him the palm over Bigwig Cope. Today almost all top-notch biologists have swept Lamarckism under the rug. A Conklin crack...
...tried to show reasonable Christians that there was no threat from evolutionary doctrine to a practical religion based on Faith, Hope & Charity and the Golden Rule. (Today his religion is a sort of altruistic, pantheistic idealism.) His feeling for religion did not cause him to spare his opponents a crack...