Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Genetics, the study of life processes, had two good and separate hours in the news last week. At Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., the Carnegie Institution of Washington conducted a genetics display to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its own incorporation and the coeval establishment of its Departments of Genetics. In Manhattan, at the American Museum of Natural History, the Eugenics Research Association (founded 1913) and the American Eugenics Society (founded 1925) jointly conducted a festival exposition on their specialty, the science of development through artificial selection...
...Almost half of them kill themselves to end their pain. Should not the state "through pity put an end to the sufferings of those incurables who ask it of us?" he asked himself. Of course, human life is inviolable. Yet the state executes criminals. And of course religion forbids good-intentioned murder as well as offensive murder and suicide. But religion is a personal matter. Step by step he puzzled out the logic of his ethical problem: "Has the state, for reasons which are at bottom religious, the right to refuse to incurables the pity which they demand...
That was when the Cherokee Times stepped in. Commercially it seemed a good bet to get permission, quickly granted, to publish Scarlet Sister Mary serially. Intellectually it was exciting for Editor-Publisher George B. Lay, 32, and his two young associates-Thomas Freeman and W. Wells Alexander, each 22-to awaken Gaffney from what they, as college men, called its "uncultured daze.'' Moreover, there was, as Mrs. Peterkin said in her letter to Mr. Lay, the possibility that Librarian Pearson had eaten something disagreeable the morning she proscribed the book...
...moved to Manhattan with Robert Morss Lovett as editor. Then its letters were exchanged for issues, its policies became freedom of speech, release of political prisoners. In 1920 under the leadership of Adviser Thayer, it became a monthly with a program devoted to esoteric odds and ends, good printing, and giving a chance to rare or unknown authors whom Adviser Scofield considered worth while. Some of the Dial's feats and features were: D. H. Lawrence's long short-story, "The Man Who Loved Islands," Arthur Symon's obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages...
...head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been an adventurer on the continent truly his race's for 16,000 years. How much dark embroidery he has put on his life story, it is impossible, and unimportant, to tell. It is a cracking good story...