Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Storm. Warming up to his theory, Dr. Petersen quotes A. J. Beveridge to point out that Charles Darwin was born the same day as Lincoln, that Victor Hugo, Cavour, Disraeli, Dickens, Bryce, Thackeray and Bismarck were all born at about the same time. To support his idea that unsettled weather has something to do with it, he notes that a crest of great sun spot activity in 1778 was followed within a few years by a historic high point in mankind's production of geniuses, that the Golden Age of Greece coincided with an alltime high...
Over the weekend Jap losses mounted. Raiding Darwin, they lost 12 planes destroyed, 12 damaged. Next day they sent 36 Zeros to attack Lae, New Guinea, were met by U.S. Lightnings. Result: 14 Zeros shot down, 9 more set afire...
...phase of attack had begun. General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said last week that a new type of U.S. ship was in action: the air forces had received some Vultee Vengeance dive-bombers and the R.A.A.F. had used them to raid the Tenimber Islands 300 miles north of Darwin...
Yeller Feller. By 1904, when Government Clerks Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth arrived in Port Zodiac (Darwin), the town was a thronging spectrum of racial color. "Going combo" (mixing with the native women) was officially taboo but an enthusiastic reality in a country short on white women and addicted to "black velvet." Soon half-castes outnumbered whites three-to-one. Unrecognized by their white fathers (who felt vaguely double-crossed), they were tolerated as mongrels by the blacks...
When he followed two other crack men to a soldier's fate - Brigadier General Harold H. ("Pursuit") George had been killed last year in an accident at Darwin - air men spoke for him the air's understated epitaph of full praise: "He was a good man to have around...