Word: mendeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Timiryazeff Agriculture Academy in Moscow got hot under their proletarian collars, wrote a steaming letter to the Commissariat of Agriculture's official journal, which published the letter last week, under the headline: "Chase Formal Genetics from the Universities!" Charles Darwin was okay, the students said in effect, but Mendel and Morgan were way off the party line, if not downright counterrevolutionary. To capitalist hell with the Mendelian...
Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-84) was a quiet Moravian monk, who discovered the laws of inheritance by puttering with peas. He showed, for example, that if a "dominant" yellow pea is bred to a "recessive" green pea, all the first generation peas will be yellow, and three out of four of the second (if bred together) will be yellow and one green. This ratio always holds in breeding a dominant to a recessive. At the dawn of the 20th Century, Mendel's laws were dug up and made the basis of the science of genetics, which was also boosted...
...Howard P. Mendel...
...mile; Ros Brayton in the mile; Gene Clark in the two-mile; Don Donahue in the high and low hurdles, and Roger Schafer in the lows; Captain Bob Haydock in the high jump; Bob Partlow in the broad jump; Fred MacIsaan in the vault; and George Drowning and Howle Mendel in the shot...
...returning in events not touched by graduation: Torby Macdonald in the 220; Gene Clark, Dave Simboll, and Bob Nichols in the two-mile; Don Donahue, Maze Fernald, and Roger Schafer in the hurdles; Partlow in the broad jump; Marshall MacIsaac and Steve Madey in the vault; Downing and Howle Mendel in the shot and Nat Heard in the discus; and Big Bill Shallow in the hammer throw...