Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles Darwin wrote: "Without the work of this humble creature, who knows nothing of the benefits he confers upon mankind, agriculture, as we know it, would be very difficult, if not wholly impossible." The great evolutionist was referring to the lowly earthworm...
Died. Gustavus Augustus Eisen, 93, Swedish-American biologist (he corresponded with Darwin, found a way to raise figs in California, got Sequoia National Park created to save the big trees), archeologist (he dug up weighty evidence to prove that the Chalice of Antioch was Sir Galahad's Grail), author (he published some no works, the last a huge monograph on Mesopotamian Cylinder-Seals); in Manhattan...
...bases. Such an attack would give the U. S. Britain and The Netherlands as allies, and provide the U. S. with the use of other bases-particularly the first-class British base at Singapore, secondarily the Dutch bases at Surabaya and Amboina, and the Australian base at Port Darwin...
...issue of the British journal Na ture which reached the U. S. last week, a new approach to absolute zero, suggested by several investigators, was explained by Dr. Charles Galton Darwin. He is the calm, pipe-smoking director of the Na tional Physical Laboratory, grandson of Evolution's great Charles Darwin. In effect the method is to work down as far as possible with the magnetism of molecules, then continue with the magnetism in the nuclei (cores) of the atoms themselves. In this way, researchers can plausibly expect to get down to one hundred-thousandth, possibly to one millionth...
...apparatus will be intricate and the experiment laborious. Says Dr. Darwin: "Each successive stage in producing cold has called for greater efforts and has on the whole produced less results." But scientists may find that at a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero, certain sub stances become permanent magnets ; they may find nothing. They do not know for sure what they will find, and that is the lure. If England survives they will keep going...