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...modern interest;he gave little thought to musical immortality. But he was fully aware that he had been the first to describe specific human emotions in Western music. "I have thought it best," he once noted down, "to make known that the investigation and first essay of this genus, so necessary to the art of music, came from...
...Westbrook Poglor's palmier days, before the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt darkened the horizon, the fiery columnist wrote an essay entitled "Are Wrestlers People?" In his customary forthright way, Pegler concluded that any resemblance between "genus home" and "genus grappler" was in no way the fault of the wrestler...
...this election for America." He chose as his text two sentences from a Stevenson speech at Los Angeles in which Adlai had said that the "honor and nobility of politics" had become "empty phrases," and that this was the fault not "of the lower order of the genus pol" but of "you, the people." Said Eisenhower: "Are you to blame for allowing nation after nation to fall to the Communists? . . . Are you to blame that . . . our country has no clear, positive, practical program for peace? . . ." On each major issue, Ike asked the same question: Are you to blame? Each time...
Fossil tremauts of the Metasequoia were only discovered in 1940 and later assigned a genus. Yet within a year a single living tree was found in China. Recent studies show that these trees once stretched all over the North temperate zone to as far North as Spitzbergen, an island above Norway...
Ordinarily a blooming lotus merits no such rapt attention from Professor Ohga, who has been studying the genus for 30 years and is known in Japan as "Dr. Lotus." But this plant, lovingly tended by the doctor's good friend, 69-year-old Soy Saucemaker Moemon Ihara, had sprouted from a seed found in a nearby peat bog, imbedded in a neolithic canoe. Counting on 100 years to form each foot of the 15 feet of peat that covered the seed, and adding 500 years for the layer of topsoil above the peat, Dr. Lotus calculated that his seed...