Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also wrote two valuable books on Sicily. Butler took issue with Darwin on no trivial point of evolutionary dogma. He was the first to note that the Abbé Lamarck had long before defined the principle of evolution, and without resorting to a theory of natural selection-the weakest element of Darwin's case...
...speakers will talk on climate as it pertains to their particular field. Dr. Darrah's subject will be "Climate as Interpreted by a Paleobotanist"; Professor Mather will deal with "Climate and Animal Evolution"; while Associate Professor Whittlesey will discuss "Climate as an Element in the Landscape...
Overseer Voliva estimated the loss at $600,000, said he had $23,000 insurance, declared that the fire was incendiary, set by enemies of the Passion Play which, he said, "aroused terrific opposition among an element of this community which I have fought for 30 years." An anti-Volivan named Rev. Theodore Pfeiffer denied that the fire was set but admitted there had been opposition. "The fire," he said, "was a judgment of God against the turning of the Tabernacle into a theatre." This week a Zionite named Thomas Griffith, 19, confessed to setting the fire, with kerosene...
...mind to import a dry style of my own from Europe," he declared when questioned about his plans. "I am more concerned with showing the method of approach to architecture." The eminent German architect asserted that he would like to stress the practical element in design here, since modern architecture is becoming more and more interrelated with the problems of actual construction...
Crimes of passion are lots of fun. Sometimes they do not even have to have ladies, lovely or otherwise, in them, to have a certain element of esoteric fascination for the casual breakfast reader. Sometimes they don't even have to be crimes of passion. If it's just a nice clean, complete job, like a compulsory quadruple crossing of the Styx, it's enough to ensure most of the front page of the Hub City's news vending organizations. In fact we strongly suspect that the men in charge of make-up on the local journals aren't sufficiently...