Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...denunciation of the law of the survival of the fittest recently made by zoologists William L. Brown Jr. and Edward C. Wilson is indeed disturbing. Claiming that jungle ants can abide each other after all, the zoologists are seeking to subvert a time-tested law of the universe. If there is any basis in their theory of "character displacement," it will mean that all existing philosphies will have to be rethought. Everyone knows that science determines the nature of the prevalent world view. In the eighteenth century Newton forced Alexander Pope to write in rhyming couplets, and in the nineteenth...
...almost three months all efforts at compromise have failed. Both sides, convinced they are right, have refused to capitulate. The transit company meanwhile has suffered abortive losses. Until last week the situation looked like a question of survival of the fittest. Then civil authorities discovered a little used 1921 statute which prohibits "conspiracy, combination or agreement to interfere or hinder business." A Montgomery grand jury promptly delivered 100 odd indictments, all for Negroes and including 24 clergymen...
Revival of the Fittest. In Paris, Leon Sellier, in a fit of pique, flung his girl friend out his fourth-floor apartment window, landed in the hospital with cuts and bruises after she bounced off a canvas awning, ran back upstairs, cracked him on the head with a wine bottle...
...Nights, they crouched in tents, often with half the canvas hanging over the slope for lack of level ground. K-2 gave no quarter, and after many days of heartbreak, they were driven back down to 25,000 feet. There the expedition reorganized, and Desio sent the fittest to try the assault again...
Britain's most significant contribution to civilization, more important even than plum pudding, plaid dinner jackets and Winston Churchill, is the principle of the survival of the fittest. Adam Smith applied it to economics, Charles Darwin to biology and Cecil Rhodes to Empire. In these illustrious footsteps follows Stephen Potter, who threatens to apply it to everything...