Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was nothing funny about any of it. In fact, it was one of the biggest downs I've had in a long time...
...have and not as hostile a crowd probably as L.B.J." What the British had witnessed, he concluded, was "another stage in the so-called de-monsterization of Nixon - that's what the American press calls it -discovering that this man, of whom they thought so ill, does, in fact, have some merit. Though, of course, he is still an untested President...
Which kills a lot more chaps, in fact...
...forehead, he inspected the blood with detachment and asked: "Is it oxyhemoglobin or carboxyhemoglobin?" At Eton, Haldane was regularly beaten by senior boys. But by the time he left school, he could read Latin and Greek, French and German, and, as he observed with matter-of-fact pride, "I knew enough chemistry to take part in research, enough biology to do unaided research, and I had a fair knowledge of history and contemporary politics." Thus equipped, he went to New College, Oxford, started in mathematics, switched to "Greats" (classics and philosophy), and broke an oar in the college crew. Strong...
Such anecdotes permit Ronald Clark to avoid one of the pitfalls of scientific biography-the depressing fact that the research that makes famous scientists famous in the first place is virtually incommunicable to the general public. Haldane's great, obsessive scientific passion, for instance, was the genetic structure of Drosophila, a particular variety of the common fruit fly, an absorption that only another scientist, or another Drosophila, could reasonably be expected to share...