Word: julians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England star performers, brilliant writers, more or less celebrated scientists with strong personal views have borne the load. The best known books of Eddington, Jeans and Bertrand Russell are as much treatises on their personal philosophies as they are skilled explanations of Relativity and quantum mechanics. Biologist Julian Huxley, brother of Novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of the late great Evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley is noted for his opinions about Science & Society, and for exposing the anthropological fallacies of Nazi Aryanism, although he has written (with a collaborator) two general books for laymen. Simple Science and More Simple Science. Burly...
Taking up the fortunes of Julian Bern, cosmopolitan young English intellectual, where Europa dropped them. Author Briffault discovers his hero holidaying in Belgium with Zena, his current mistress. War has been declared, and the German invasion quickly comes too close for comfort. Julian and Zena escape to England, hoping to live there quietly as spectators of a world gone mad. They soon find both England and their chosen role impossible. Zena goes back to her native Russia; Julian despairingly enlists. Thereafter the narrative is governed less by probability than by convenience: coincidences pop up as required, scenes shift and actors...
...eyed Biologist Julian Sorell Huxley predicted at Nottingham that the old dream of eugenists-human breeding by selected males and females only-would actually be put into practice within one or two generations. Said Dr. Huxley: "When people get used to the idea they will accept it just as they have accepted birth control...
...great pleasure to avail myself of Section 170.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure. . . ." Thus he asked that the case be transferred to another judge. The momentary silence in the courtroom was acute. The judge was slightly abashed. While conversation buzzed the request was referred to Presiding Judge C. Julian Goodell who transferred the case, assigned it to another judge for trial this week...
...Julian C. Eisenstein, Warrenton, Missouri--Warrenton High School...