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...Gold Cup put up by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1905, sailing from Sandy Hook to the Lizard (3,014 miles) in 12 days, 4 hours, 1 minute-a record that still stands for a transatlantic crossing under sail...
...natural ionizing rays, Muller theorized, may well cause the small percentage of "spontaneous" mutations (marked inheritable deviations from the ancestral norm) in all forms of life. The success of some mutations in the struggle for existence largely accounts for evolution, which has proceeded through the ages from protozoa to lizard to man seemingly in spurts rather than at a steady pace. The spurts and lags may correspond to varying intensity of cosmic ray showers...
...tights shingled with iridescent spangles, which made them look like Japanese beetles, huddled in the spotlight on the dim stage. The woman and one of the men began to posture in a slow dance. The other man inserted himself between the couple, reared up impassively, slithered like Bill the Lizard down the male back to the floor. That over, the three handed around arms and legs with poised abandon. In the pit, the orchestra sounded tentative about what sounds it would make next, a little anxious about what it would hear next from the solo violinist, who was worming...
...making One Million B. C. Directors Hal Roach & Hal Roach Jr. have thrown science to the winds that howl through arid Fire Valley, Nev. where most of the thriller was filmed. They rely for red-blooded entertainment on such spectacles as a giant lizard devouring a man, a tapir-like monster ingesting a python, a battle royal between two dinosaurs...
Modern audiences should not be surprised when Tumak carries off Cinemactress Landis to civilize his own family. She is making fair headway when an erupting volcano, a river of molten lava, an earthquake and a siege by the biggest lizard of all unexpectedly further Progress by merging the Shell and Rock tribes...