Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the week, Mr. Kellogg said nothing more on the subject of Bolshevism. Really, Mr. Kellogg does not want any war with Mexico- nor does President Coolidge-nor do nine-tenths of the U. S. Hence, the artificial war scare prepared to die...
Wassermann has a peculiarly contemporary appeal; yet Christian Wahnsschaffe and Eva Sorel, Friedrich and Pia Laudin are universal; Christian Wahnschaffe will always be lost in the wilderness of evil, searching with blind eyes for a remote Justice. Jacob Wassermann will not die with his enemy and victim, "fin de siecle...
...true that a drunkard's son will drink badly (that acquired characteristics are inheritable) ? Not demonstrably. Why is it that more male babies die than females? Because: 1) their inheritance contains more recessive (weak) characteristics; 2) semi-lethal characteristics are of the recessive type. Is death a necessary consequence of life? Immortality has been achieved for certain flatworms, is observable in certain trees. Is sex predeterminate? Not yet, but soon perhaps; meantime, no man is not latently female, and functional sex reversal has actually been wrought upon frogs, chickens, owls...
...race, and in his lengthened life can use his mating energies for better things. The results are interesting when this theory of Mr. Wells is applied to the lives on alligators and caterpillars. The latter live only a few days as adult butterflies mate, flutter about a bit, and die. The former survive many generations of men. They are born, they mate, and they die like the others. As for their decades of leisure, most of it is spent in crawling unhurriedly about the ooze...
...splashed with slime. The container in which he was culturing virulent tuberculosis germs had burst. Knowing well the danger of infection the scientist stripped off his clothes and for two hours scrubbed his equipment and laboratory with germ-killing lysol. What germs he had involuntarily inhaled he hoped would die off be fore they could harm...