Word: evolutionist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Director of the Zoological Laboratory of the University and as a lecturing professor of zoology, Professor Parker is thoroughly conversant with the evolutionist's viewpoint and as the author of "Biology and Social Problems" he has made an especial study of the relation between the physical sciences and the daily life of the human species...
Teacher John Thomas Scopes remains convicted. The "classic struggle" has been permitted, by its erstwhile foam-mouthed partisans on both sides, to dwindle into obscurity. The anti-evolution law stands in Tennessee, but, satisfied with their momentarily magnificent gesticulations, the evolutionist newspapers no longer keep bright the diadem of obloquy with which they crowned that state...
...Kentucky, contiguous to Tennessee, Miss Lela V. Scopes, like her brother an Evolutionist, was refused reappointment to her position in the Paducah schools. Smiling, she announced that she had signed a contract to teach in the Highland Manor School for Girls at Tarrytown...
This statement, far from being startling, is only an obvious repetition of common knowledge. Shaw, however, has added his name to the cause which is helped by every bit of publicity. The great fear which now besets the evolutionist is that the whole trial will be hushed up as quickly as possible and that Bryan and evolution may be denied the royal exposition of which both are still sadly in need--even at this late date...
LYNDON PHIFER Brevity, accuracy, significance moved TIME to the adoption of such titles as Teacher, Evolutionist, Philosopher, Publisher, Ditchdigger, Bootlegger, Undertaker, Politician, etc., before last names. The teaching of Messrs. Bent and Ross is standard in the newspaper world. TIME, to be concise and to the point, breaks this and other canons of journalism.-ED. Fears Ridicule...