Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hope for the Backward. Genetics probably offers the Soviet authorities one of their trickiest methods of posing as a source of scientific light and hope. Western genetics, following Mendel and Morgan, teaches that the inherited characteristics of living organisms are largely controlled by genes passed down from parents to offspring. During sexual reproduction the genes are shuffled, but except in the case of accidental mutations they are not changed. Lysenko teaches that the form of an organism is determined by the environment in which it develops. He claims to have modified plant species merely by moving them around Russia. (Western...
...time.* At this point, it wears a starchy mask, and its smiles creak painfully. It is an idyl of the Gay Nineties, and the costumes have a bustley charm; but the girls who wear them are addicted to Technicolor simpers. The love stories of the two young couples (Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone, Don DeFore and Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens to them except that they pair off and get married. One lad goes...
Ralph Blane's nostalgic melodies and Ben Blue's old-fashioned but highly polished comedy are the main assets of this remake. The others are Newcomer Dorothy Malone's winsome singing and the earnest performance of Dennis Morgan...
Last week U.S. doctors talked back to Dr. Brailsford in sharp tones. His statements, snorted Dr. Russell Morgan, director of Johns Hopkins' department of radiology, were "totally contrary to the best medical thinking in this country at the present time." In the past six months, he said, X rays of the stomachs of 3,000 patients in Johns Hopkins' dispensary clinic turned up cancers in four people who had no symptoms whatever. Said Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society: if a patient waits for symptoms of cancer, "all too often...
Precept & Example. In Detroit, James Morgan, arrested for creating a hazard by storing combustibles in his shop, identified himself as the sign painter who makes safety posters for the city. In Newcastle, Australia, after Radio Announcer Philip C. Furley warned listeners to get their government listening licenses, he was fined $15 for not renewing...