Word: developer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cancer. Dr. Maud Slye of Chicago University said that the Mendelian law of heredity applied to cancer susceptibility and cancer resistance developed through 67,000 individual studies on mice. Persistently Pathologist Slye bred the reliable rodents. Twenty years she worked and has finally concluded that cancer is not contagious, but tendencies for or against it can be inherited in mice. Twenty-five generations has she bred absolutely free of cancer because the original stock had been eugenically chosen. Cancerous ancestors infallibly transmitted the disease down the generations infallibly. Said Dr. Slye: "If we could manage human breeding as expertly...
...poets are apt to develop a weakness for epigrams. Sometimes they achieve their most beautiful thoughts in these short, effortless three or four lines. Thus Landor like, Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet and mystic, in his sixty-seventh year has compiled such a collection which he calls FIREFLIES (Macmillan Co., New York, 1928, $2.50). On the flyleaf is Tagore's explanatory inscription, "Fireflies had their origin in China and Japan where thoughts were very often claimed from me in my handwriting of fans and pieces of silk...
...comes from the Southland, where the big league training camps hold forth. Day by day bulletins come north relating the smallest details of the home team's preparation for the season. Never do pennant prospects appear as bright as in March, when veteran pitchers stage comebacks and rookie shortstop develop into capable regulars without the least difficulty. But all is not sunshine for the team's supporters, for is not Vic Aldridge, one of the best pitchers in the league, still a holdout? Not until he settles his dispute with the treasurer over an increase in salary, will...
...butter can be applied to American schools in more than one sense. . . . What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind, not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop consecutive thought. Too much attention has been paid to making education attractive by smoothing the path as compared with inducing strenuous voluntary effort...
...accomplish too much and as a result achieve nothing well. "What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind; not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop consecutive thought...