Word: darwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irving Fisher, H. H. Goddard, Warner Fite, George H. Palmer, William P. Montague, Roswell H. Johnson, C C Little, Samuel J. Holmes, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Madison Grant, (Theodore) Lothrop Stoddard, Charles W. Eliot, Charles B. Davenport, Havelock Ellis, H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Cox, Leonard Darwin, Dean Inge...
Guttie Balls. At Woking, on the Surrey dunes, England amused herself with her annual investigation into the idiosyncrasies of the old- fashioned gutta percha ball. A notable group of players, including long-hitting Cyril Tolley, " ancient " Bernard Darwin, Roger Wethered, C. V. L. Hooman, E. W. E. Holderness, conducted experiments. Wethered managed to hew out a 77. Tolley, who can drive over 300 yards with abnormal rubber cored ball, did little better than 200 with his gutta percha pellet...
...appearance in English of The Life of the Scorpion,* the capstone in the great ten-volume series of Souvenirs Entomologiques, together with the centenary of his birth (1823) brings to mind again the life labor of Jean Henri Fabre, " the insects' Homer," whom Darwin called "a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." Fabre died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion...
Koppanyi's work should not be confused with that of Prof. Paul Kammerer, also of the University of Vienna, whose experiments in the transmission of acquired characteristics have recently aroused widespread interest here and in England, some biologists going so far as to rank him with Darwin (TIME, May 12). Kammerer grew eyes in the proteus, a sightless newt whose eyes are mere rudimentary spots beneath the skin, atrophied through ages of living in deep marine caves. He did it by exposing the newts to red light in their watery home continuously for five years from birth. After several...
...Charles Darwin. His book may cause many devout people to commit themselves...