Word: origin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guessers about the origin of life on Earth last week hearkened when a distinguished Californian announced the discovery of bacteria in meteorites. For lack of precise facts, some guessers have placed life, with meteors, sunshine, starshine and cosmic rays, as an extramundane intrusion. Professor Charles Bernard Lipman, the booming, moon-faced plant-physiologist who is dean of the University of California's graduate division, now thinks such guessers have been correct. From several sources he acquired meteorites (meteors which landed intact on Earth). These he doused, scrubbed, seared and otherwise sterilized, then pulverized in sterile mortars. The dust...
...William who was murdered by Luddites in 1812, to young David who resolves to recoup the family fortunes in 1931, represent the close-fisted, passionate hard-riding Tory lot who owned mills. The Bamforths, illegitimately conceived by young Will Oldroyd in 1812, are, as one might suspect from their origin, those who suffer the worker's lot and eventually become Crusaders in that cause. The decline of the Oldroyds begins when the desire for family distinction obscures the interest in good cloth; the success of the Bamforth line lies in its espousal of the humane cause...
...Newfoundland, as you know, is inhabited by 2,000,000 people of Spanish origin who still speak Spanish since Cortes conquered the country from the Incas, while the Guatemalans speak Portuguese, since Don Pedro of Syracuse conquered the country in 1456. . . . As just one example of injustice, these two States are represented in the American Senate by only one Senator, whereas the others, such as New York, have...
...system when the time comes for "action" (political). Small groups of "parlor pinks" are worthless to the cause. Workers must be made class-conscious, must be given new and inspiring leaders for the "revolution." Organized labor offers no such leaders because unions have gone in for racketeering. And: "The origin of racketeering is obviously in the Capitalistic system. Capitalism, essentially lawless and brutal, is inherently a racket but in America it is more blatantly...
...Maybe. Wherever Delegate Davis turned on disarmament, he bumped head-on into War debts. During the War he had been the Treasury Department's Financial Commissioner in Paris on loans from the U. S., was thus thoroughly familiar with the origin of these obligations. He was an off-the-record observer at the Lausanne conference and is credited in some quarters not only with knowing the inside story of the Gentlemen's Agreement but with having, by his tact and patience, materially aided the conference's success. His repeated statement, repeatedly confirmed by the U. S. State...