Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hail Darwin! Hail Franklin! The second get-together was in the red-and-gold Bolshoi Theater. On the stage, where the academicians sat, a white, heroic-sized bust of Lenin stood on a pedestal underneath a mammoth poster portrait of Stalin. President Komarov's welcoming address (read for him because he was ailing) proposed greetings to Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin, the Red Army, the Red Navy. The conferees enthusiastically sent them...
...Russian political propaganda and agitation, Charles Darwin is the most quoted of English scientists, because his Origin of Species is considered a refutation of the supernatural. Toward the end of Komarov's speech, he reviewed British science in two paragraphs, most of which was devoted to the great work done by Darwin. American science was covered in one paragraph, which mentioned Benjamin Franklin...
...lonely bachelor was alone in his rooms, he would find himself face to face with what Author Lennon believes was the other major problem of his life - his religious beliefs. To be a rebel in Victorian England required unusual boldness, and while such doughty fighters as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Butler were openly questioning the authority of the Church, the Rev. Mr. Dodgson was doing his utmost to quiet the tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself to sleep by endless inventions of games, gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics...
Bellamy was an excellent reviewer. Discussing the works of such contemporaries as Darwin and Oliver Wendell Holmes, he wrote provocatively of strikes, schools, child labor, prison camps, Brook Farm. At 32 he married a 21-year-old orphan whom his parents had adopted at 13, settled down to write short stories and historical novels (Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, The Duke of Stockbridge). William Dean Howells hailed him as a new Hawthorne. Bellamy also put his savings ($1,200) into a new paper, the Springfield Penny News, and made it prosper before he sold it to his brother...
...Some dropsy symptoms from Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden...