Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the subject of sex relations is one on which it is difficult to reason without overcoming strong and almost inborn prejudices. Nevertheless there is little to be gained in the long run by suppressing vital facts. Both Galileo and Darwin were bitterly reviled when they opposed traditional ideas with scientific discoveries. Yet their work is the basis of modern physics and biology...
...speaking society to decide by ballot which were the Ten Greatest Englishmen. The plan: to hang portraits of the Big Ten in the society's clubhouse. The students elected the following Big Ten: Robert Louis Stevenson, Admiral Nelson, Ramsay MacDonald, George Bernard Shaw, Edward I., David Lloyd George, Shakespeare, Darwin, Adam Smith, Pitt the Younger...
...English years were primarily a book-writing time. He began his colossal Capital: A Criticism of Political Economy and published the first volume in the same year (1867) and the same place (London) as Darwin's Origin of Species...
...business venture but as a "public service" did Mr. Coolidge accept his new work. Wrote he to Darwin Pearl Kingsley, president of New York Life: "Believing that life insurance is the most effective instrumentality for the promotion of industry, saving and character ever devised, that a well-managed mutual company is a cooperative society for the advancement of the public welfare. ... I accept the nomination. . . ." Mrs. Coolidge may benefit financially from her husband's new work. The company's directors are paid $50 in gold for each board meeting and $20 in gold for each committee meeting...
...Sportsman Pilot, a monthly magazine devoted to the activities of amateur flyers, took the air last week. On shiny paper cut slightly larger than this page, Editor Darwin J. Adams and Managing Editor Franklin Pinkham printed articles and pictures calculated to make as-yet-wingless readers look skyward. Publicist Fitzhugh Green tried to explain why Commander Byrd is in the Antarctic. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, discoursed on woman's status in aviation...