Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the evolutionary theory has influenced all branches of science, scientists have attempted to unite everything in a pattern of continuous development. As Charles Darwin and his contemporaries removed the definite boundaries between man and the rest of the animal kingdom, so scientists have united animal life and plant life. Upon the animal-plant dividing line, organisms were discovered which never have been definitely classified, showing relationship to the simplest animal and yet having the chlorophyll (the green pigment in plants which in the presence of sunlight is responsible for photosynthesis, the union of carbon dioxide and water to form...
Britain's Amy. Scarcely noticed by British newsmen when she took off alone in her tiny Gipsy-Moth biplane from Croydon, Amy ("Call-me-Johnnie") Johnson landed last week at Port Darwin, Australia, a national heroine. Three days behind the record of Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, Miss Johnson's 11,500-mi. flight in a little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this...
...spectacular solo flights?which have never materialized. Hence, last week, the British Empire and then the world at large became aware with some astonishment that Amy Johnson, 22, golden-haired secretary, graduate of Sheffield University, was performing a prodigious feat in her flight from Croydon, England, toward Port Darwin, Australia...
...girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump from the Indian Archipelago to Port Darwin...
...about 20 attempts, four London-Australia Sir flights Ross besides Smith and Hinkler's crew of were five, 30 completed: days; 1926, 1919, Sir Alan Cobham, 62 days: 1928, Capt. William Newton Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, 32 days; 1929, Lieut. J. Moir, crashed 100 miles from Port Darwin...