Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States. The students of Harvard are singularly fortunate in being able to study zoology, anatomy, and botany under these distinguished gentlemen, who are also skillful and elequent teachers of their respective silences. It may interest some of our readers to learn that Dr. Gray is a disciple of Darwin, while Agassiz is his most uncompromising opening in the scientific world. Jettries Whyman does not reject Darwin...
...Sodom Fire, Fire of Pentecost, Avenging Fire, Fiery Furnace, Cleansing Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which accordion, saxophone and bell music was interspersed with appearances of Pharaoh, Herod, Attila, Napoleon, Edward VIII, Darwin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ, the latter arriving before the massed cast in a turbulent burst of sound and color to demonstrate His superiority to the other rulers and to inform the audience that He would return again...
...fine idea. Why not start a "Newspaper of the Air" with three or more daily editions to keep KVOS fans up to the minute on world affairs? For advertising, there was the business of Bellingham merchants who would pay for interspersed announcements. For an editor, there was L. H. Darwin, who had once published a Bellingham paper. For news, there were the columns of the Bellingham Herald and the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer, all members of the far-flung Associated Press...
...Soon Mr. Darwin and Rogan Jones, the stocky, breezy owner of KVOS, had agreed on a contract, arranged to split profits from the "Newspaper of the Air." Listeners liked the newscasting, the "fighting" editorials which the radio station directed against the Bellingham Herald and other political foes. First trouble for KVOS came when the A. P. asked for an injunction to prevent the broadcasters from appropriating its news as it appeared in member papers. Financial support came, to KVOS from the National Association of Broadcasters, representatives of a notoriously timid yet greedy industry, glad to find an obscure test case...
...voice of comparative anatomy and paleontology, the facts plainly indicate that the skeletons of both the horse and his rider, however much they differ in details, are but divergent modifications of the old grappling bridge type. . . . This elementary but far-reaching fact, which was well understood by Buffon, Lamarck, Darwin and all later evolutionists, is to this day ignored by the vast majority of mankind, including the writers of many textbooks on human anatomy...