Word: explains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delivered an address on "Natural Selection and Evolutionary Progress." Natural selection has been subject to much criticism because it does not account for all aspects of evolution and because Darwin gave no emphasis to mutations (sudden changes in the germ plasm). Biologist Huxley sides neither with those who would explain everything by natural selection, nor with extreme proponents of the mutation theory such as Thomas Hunt Morgan. In the Huxley view the two factors complement each other. But: "Natural selection, in fact, though like the mills of God in grinding slowly and grinding small, has few other attributes that...
Eleven undergraduate extra-curricular activity leaders will address all new Freshmen at a reception being held in Philips Brooks House this evening at 7.30 o'clock. These men will explain the ins and outs of such organizations as the Student Council, the CRIMSON, and football managerships. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the speaking...
Over the State they also plastered bills for an $8,359.80 week-end fishing party which Governor Brann gave at State expense last year: hotel, $4,070.97; railroad, $1,603; cigars and cigarets, $249.55; ginger ale, $115; State Liquor Commission, $310.80. Governor Brann took to the radio to explain that his guests, including 150 newsmen, had been invited strictly to publicize Maine's resort attractions, that his Development Commission figured the State had got $600,000 worth of publicity out of the junket. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate F. Harold Dubord made much of the fact that Ulysses S. Grant...
Grinned Boss Farley as he released this news: "I am sure that the voters in the State of Maine would be quite interested to have Governor Landon explain. . . . It is also interesting to note the generous contributions made by the backers of the American Liberty League...
...guided by Dr. Gioacchino Failla of Manhattan and Dr. Henri Coutard of Paris, both of whom spoke in Madison last week, are learning to focus x-ray beams of hundreds of thousands of volts upon cancerous internal organs and to bring about some cures. But no specialist can yet explain why radiations destroy cancers any more than a specialist can describe the exact conditions which permit a cancer to develop...