Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of Darwin when the church attacked the teachings of science are long since past, but last week the old argument was revived-this time by Julian Huxley, grandson of Darwin's great interpreter Thomas Huxley...
...simple! physics; chemistry took another century. "The central fact of biology, evolution was not established until modern science had been in existence for over two hundred years. ... In the same way the science of mind developed later than biological science. What Newton was for mechanics and physics, and Darwin for biology, Freud was for psychology-the originator of a new and illuminating way of thinking...
Owen Stanley . . . produced the first (and probably only) theatrical performance ever seen in Northwestern Australia. This was a play acted by naval personnel for the entertainment of the ship's company of the Beagle which called at Port Essington in 1839. Aboard the Beagle was Charles Darwin who gave his name to another United Nations outpost...
...dispute the claim. The Japanese had been inching into outposts of The Netherlands East Indies ever since they seized Timor last February. They have been unmolested except for occasional bombing raids, usually by outmoded Australian Lockheed Hudsons. Last week's inch put them within 300 miles of Darwin...
...several centuries they were a famed stopping place for buccaneers and whalers, who took along the islands' giant (400 Ib.) tortoises for fresh meat, and set up a primitive post office (in a barrel) which still provides free mail delivery. In 1835 they made scientific history: Charles Darwin visited them, found that half of the islands' birds and flowers had no counterparts elsewhere, gathered data that later gave him the idea for his Origin of Species...