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...private cosmogony, an explanation of the physical universe based upon the inference that there was, in the beginning, and still is, a universal medium, ether, very dense, continuous, all-permeating, boundless, and everywhere in violent motion. Since matter is now known to be pure energy in complicated forms, the origin of matter out of the ether might be accounted for thus: the continuity of the ether was at some time interrupted by "an extremely minute cavity," a sort of vacuous bubble in equilibrium under the gigantic pressure of the surrounding ether. Sir Oliver pictured this bubble "spinning violently under...
Darwin to Date. It was 68 years since that gentlest of men, Charles Darwin, had trundled into position a battery of facts, collected patiently for many years, and blown mankind from its citadel of Biblical belief in its special divine origin. Sir Arthur Keith, whose audience included a kingdomful of radio listeners and a worldful of newspaper readers, proposed to review the Darwinian batteries; to report on their condition and any changes made in them since Darwin's time; and to affirm, once for all, the official stand of British science on Darwin's proposition that humanity...
...Boston last week stood Charles E. Black, U. S. singles Champion Bowler. Once Illinois tennis champion, he took to bowling ten years ago. Now, as he watched the bowls sliding as if upon green ice with the mechanical accuracy of bearings around a greased axle, he commented on the origin, development, tendencies, of the game he loves. A straight gentleman with a red Dutch face, he looked like the shade of Peter Minuit, onetime (1623-32) governor of New Amsterdam, legendary champion of New Amsterdam bowlers, as he said: "All the big sporting events are Chicago bound. The bowling tournaments...
...Doheny, oilman, picked and shoveled the banks of the Colorado River seeking traces of an "apeman" with nine feet of vertebrae, including tail; twelve-legged dragons; animals answering Biblical descriptions. Digger Hubbard is unique in his profession. He hopes to prove Evolution wrong, the Bible right, about man's origin...
...Nevada, on dry beds in Lake Lahontan, near Lovelock, were found the remains of a human settlement evidently of Asiatic origin for it had camels. Piute and Shoshone Indians have legends about a wise race that lived in the Nevada desert. In 1833 a white trader found a live camel in an Indian Village. The Lake Lahontan settlement appeared to have been exterminated about 200 years...