Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first mail plane of Imperial Airways' new London-Australia service (with which addition the company serves four continents) ran out of fuel near Kupang on the Island of Timor, cracked up in a forced landing. Last week Australia's air hero Charles Kingsford-Smith flew from Port Darwin across the Timor Sea to Kupang, in his famed Southern Cross, and returned with the mail from the crippled City of Cairo. Not discouraged. Imperial Airways last week dispatched its second Australian mail plane from Croydon, England. By schedule, the flight should take ten days; surface mail takes 28 days...
...exodus of professors and researchers from the universities to the patronage of commercial interests. Large businesses attract scholars away from, their duty of teaching American youth to a place where they can work comfortably and independently as an advertisement to the broadmindedness of the particular firm," Dr. C. G. Darwin, F.R.S., professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and a grandson of the great English naturalist stated in a discussion with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Darwin, who is giving a course of lectures on the newest physical theories at the Lowell Institute in Boston, expressed these opinions...
Disagreeing with most British opinion, Professor Darwin does not think that the American university or college is too heavily endowed. The elaborate equipment. Scientific or athletic, although often regarded as a luxury is a definite time saver and should be appropriated...
...years this presidency has belonged to Darwin Pearl Kingsley, 73. It will soon be conveyed to Thomas Aylette Buckner, 66. Mr. Kingsley will become chairman of the board, a post created for him. With him Mr. Kingsley will carry the memories of his early adventurous days in the roughneck towns of Colorado; also his secret hobby (he is a member of the Hobby Club): Shakespeare. He owns four early folios, including the fabulous first, picked up at Quaritch's in Piccadilly. In the library of his office (in his company's new building on the site of Madison...
...were last week making preparations to leave the earth. Inventor Maurice Poirer of Burbank, Calif., fired a miniature moon-plane from the top of a mountain, watched it crash to the bottom of San Francisquito Canyon. In Italy a 132-lb. rocket designed by another U. S. rocketeer, Dr. Darwin O. Lyon, exploded, seriously injured four mechanics. In Vienna, the Meteorological Institute of Urania heard Professor Hermann Oberth tell how he hoped to reach Mars or Jupiter within 15 years. In Manhattan the Interplanetary Society, an organization of lunar and planetary aspirants whose members include Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, Clark...