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Basra, Irak . . . . . .800 Port Darwin, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Croyden to Bundaberg | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Please let Will Rogers comment on Scorpio's fate. Anyway, I note that by being born at 12 p. m. Feb. 19 I just made Charles Darwin's star and missed W. J. Bryan's by a comet's hair. Whew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...says Sacrae Theologiae Magister, but I wonder why the "sacrae." Isn't all theology sacred, or supposed to be? I vastly prefer your interpretation of the mystic initials as Master of Scientific Theology. Now if you will only change my useless B. D. (Bachelor of Divinity) to mean Darwin Booster, in recognition of my pro-evolution activities, my debt will be double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...found that it meant, "a process of development." When the class heard this they wriggled on their chairs, frightened. Said one small girl, her big brown eyes very wide open, her voice very hushed: "Evolution means to come from a monkey." Principal Tate answered her quickly: "... a man named Darwin wrote a book about that theory but no man ever said the theory was true." Then Principal Tate placidly remarked: "Any one who does not believe in a policy of self development might as well . . . leave school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tne New School House | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

President Darwin Pearl Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Co. attacked the "foolish philosophy of the Declaration of Independence" before the 21st annual convention of life insurance presidents in Manhattan last week. As all men would be, life insurance men and social welfare leaders were startled. They listened eagerly to the rest of his speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kingsley on Demagogs | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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