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...still think so, but biologists know better. It is a chromosome that does the business, whether the offspring is a fruit fly's or a man's. To predetermine sex, control the chromosome. In the Journal of Heredity, organ of the American Genetic Association, Princeton Biologist E. Newton Harvey...
...beauties paraded in Hamilton's baseball stadium, the judges gravely examined the girls' hands, feet, teeth, etc. and weeded them down to four. The less critical bleachers merely kept up a long low whistle. Finally only Miss Marion Saver, 21, a brunette from Newton Brook, Ont. with a rabbit's foot in her hand, was left. She was proclaimed Miss Canada with pert Miss Muriel Hunter of Hamilton close behind her (see cut). Excitedly she tried to explain that she had entered the contest only on the urging of her family. Said she: "If it weren...
...officers of the club are: president, Elbridge Pickard of Arlington; vice-president, Andrew Soikkeli of Quincy; treasurer, Lawrence Bjorkholtz of Newton Highlands; and secretary, Katherine Hendrie of Milton...
...pageant opened with a shameless portrayal of Thomas Dudley, founder of Newton, swindling an Indian squaw out of the land on which Cambridge now stands. Ensuing scene paid homage to the four pillars of power; religion, education, patriotism, and industry...
Gravitation and Starlight. "Special Relativity," though it stood many rigorous tests, was not accepted at once. For ten years Einstein worked, extending his theory to cover more varied "frames of reference." In 1915, he published his "General Relativity." It explained the force of gravitation itself, which Newton had merely pointed...