Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CHARLES DARWIN - Geoffrey West -Yale University Press...
...group forms the nucleus from which the officers are chosen. Those elected were George F. Bateson, Hugh F. Colvin, Alfred J. Dickinson, Jr., Schuler C. Rober, Darwin C. Brown, Edwin Ewing, Jr., Charles M. Williams, William Dibble, A. Kendall Oulie, Paul S. Bowers, and William J. English. A tie between Alfred E. Kurts and Hugh F. Warner will be decided shortly...
...trouble focus is the research carried on at Duke University by Joseph Banks Rhine, by which Dr. Rhine claims to have proved the existence of "ESP'' (extrasensory perception). Dr. Rhine-some of whose admirers have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin rolled into one-invented a famous test in which subjects are asked to "guess." one by one, the cards of a special deck whose faces they are not permitted to see. He submits that the far higher than expected number of correct guesses points plausibly to the existence of telepathy...
JOURNEY TO THE WEST-Darwin L. Teilhet-Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Picaresque, 593-page novel about a high-pressure, radical Manhattan adman, stranded in Seattle, who gets entangled with quacks, radical slickers and adventuresses, in a gory, last-scene fight saves his soul and his future father-in-law's brewery...
Last November New Zealand-born Arthur Edmund Clouston, who tests airplanes for Britain's Royal Air Force, flew from England to South Africa in 45 hours, an all-time record. Last week Flying Officer Clouston, in a four-year-old De Havilland Comet, flew from Port Darwin, Australia to Croydon, England in three days, 20 hours. In so doing he lopped 28 hours off the previous best time, established by Cathcart Jones and the late Kenneth Waller...