Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distance away. From the shock record the speed of the tremors was deduced, and from that the geological character of the ground. Also on view were gravity instruments so sensitive that they detect the moon's tidal pull on the earth. With such equipment, said Research Director Paul Darwin Foote, the chance of a drill striking oil has been increased from...
...From the utterances of well-known statesmen it has repeatedly been evident that many of them have conceptions of war that are identical with those of the average man. Arguments such as "War is the Supreme Court of Appeal" and "War is the necessary outcome of Darwin's theory" are erroneous and dangerous, in view of the realities of modern warfare. They camouflage a primitive craving for power and are meant to stimulate the preparedness for war among the speaker's countrymen...
...overwhelming weight of opinion was against him, a distinguished 69-year-old zoologist glared at his colleagues, raised his voice, bounced up & down on his heels last week at the British Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Norwich. It was just a century ago that Charles Robert Darwin, cruising in the Beagle, landed on the Galapagos Islands where his theories of organic evolution, transformation of species and natural selection began to take definite shape. Vastly irked last week was Dr. Ernest William MacBride, longtime professor of zoology at London's Imperial College of Science, by the eulogies...
...country's gold supply. His confidential secretary took bribes from the Whiskey Ring. Even though he was not directly involved in the Credit Mobilier exposure, it placed him under popular suspicion. "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant," Henry Adams wrote, "was alone enough to upset Darwin." Corruption, bribery and precedence given measures for party expediency characterized his administrations, which were historically important in a negative sense, in that they gave a powerful impetus to reform, bred a widespread cynicism for democratic government, effectively discouraged able and conscientious men from seeking political careers...
...Darwin's Origin of Species