Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though evolutionists have long since modified and refined Darwin's theory that biological development is the result of natural selection, particularly of ceaseless strife and ruthless elimination of the unfit, Darwinism has been called in as scientific justification for the Marxist class struggle, the worst abuses of laissez-faire capitalism, the growth of militarism and competitive nationalism...
...spot at which the Allies got the jump on the Japanese was Timor. This half-Dutch, half-Portuguese island, lying between the Dutch East Indies and Australia (only 410 miles from Darwin), has long been eyed by the Japanese. This autumn they acquired the right from the Portuguese to fly a commercial airline there. Dutch and Australian troops marched into Portuguese Timor last week over the protest of local Portuguese authorities. But even this little triumph was fraught with political hazards which might eventually offset the military advantage...
...town of Darwin an Arnhem tribesman named Jacala, serving a jail sentence for spearing a native chieftain, could see from his cell window the neon lights of a movie theater. When he was released, Jacala went back to his tribe, 400 miles away, still wondering about the movies...
Jacala persuaded 20 fellow tribesmen to return to Darwin. For 40 days they traveled, came at last to the movie theater with the neon sign, paid and entered. On a shiny screen, a white man was hugging and kissing a white woman. Jacala & friends disgusted, stalked out, walked 40 days home again...
...Darwin natives, constant moviegoers, could have told them of the standard native device for dealing with such pictures: natives obliterate kissing scenes by flashing electric torches at the screen...