Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London gave a 1-in-12 chance of being killed. Purely a long-distance speed race, the MacRobertson Derby was a free-for-all with virtually no restrictions. Chief requirement was that contestants land at five specified control points: Bagdad, Irak; Allahabad, India; Singapore, Malay Straits; Darwin and Charleville, Australia. The finish was at Melbourne's great Flemington Racecourse, where more than 100,000 persons awaited the winner. Prizes will be awarded by the Duke of Gloucester...
...think all biologists would agree that, so far as we can know anything about such matters, pain, as human beings know pain, is wholly absent from the experience of invertebrate, or even reptilian, contestants in the struggle for existence. Alfred Russel Wallace, co-promulgator with Darwin of the theory of evolution, even suggested that among some of the lower forms of life the process of being eaten might be mildly pleasant...
Australia won the first test match at Nottingham in June. England won the second at Lord's. The next two were draws. The fifth at the Oval (London) last week was to last until one side won, if it took, as Cricket Critic Bernard Darwin wrote, "to all eternity...
...TALKING SPARROW MURDERS&151;Darwin L. Teilhet&151; Morrow ($2). The hard times of a murder suspect in Nazi Germany. Previously serialized...
...lecture, which is part of the Darwin Lectureship, will be delivered in Burlington House at the time when Dr. Shapley is awarded the gold medal of the London Royal Astronomical Society for his studies of the galaxy. Previous recipients of the medal were Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Dr. Albert Einstein...