Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much to do with the rapid rise of Robert Clarkson. In 1921 he was made a vice-president, in 1925 a director, vice-chairman of the executive committee, an assistant to the president. With these pebbles in his pocket, it surprised few astute financial observers to learn, last week, that he had picked up one more...
...interesting to learn that the case of John B. Nemo, an Italian, the legality of whose projected deportation was argued last night in the final round of the Ames Competition is no theoretical dilemma, propounded by professors, but a case now before the Supreme Court of the United States for review, in the original, Mr. Nemo is a Chinese named Bee who registered for the Draft, and was thereupon arrested under the Chinese Exclusion Act for being unlawfully in this country. His rights were upheld by three Boston lawyers in the lower courts for years of bitter litigation. So many...
Sirs: Bitter it is for me to learn that the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science used false and chicane arguments to counterblast the anti-evolutionists at Nashville. As you reported in your Jan. issue, the association's president, Dr. Arthur Amos Noyes of Pasadena Calif., said: ". . . the fact that evolution has been going on and that many animal types have gone through definite stages of development can only be doubted by an individual who, like an ostrich, buries his head in the sand out of a vague dread that he may see something shocking...
...days it followed, never lighting, snatching small fish from the waves, offal from the ship's wake. Sailors caught the albatross and aerodonetists studied its 17-ft. wingspread, its 4-ft., 25-lb. body. The albatross is the largest and strongest of seabirds, and scientists have tried to learn from it the method of its easy flight. At London last week Capt. Victor Dibovsky-43, aviator since 1908, inventor of gears to permit the firing of bullets through the revolving propellers of airplanes, winner of a British prize for inventiveness-declared that he had solved the problem. The secret...
...There are, said he, at least five great divisions of genetic problems which are capable of successful investigation in laboratory mammals, viz., the genetic bases for size & growth, fertility & sterility, susceptibility or resistance to disease, lethal action of genes during development, and psychological differences. Studying those fields, investigators might learn the possibility of controlling the ratio between the sexes, of developing resistance to infectious diseases and elimination of hereditary defects, of gaining new light on the inheritance of mental characteristics...