Word: originally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wrote that the movies had largely destroyed the old travelling stock companies, but that a great deal of theatrical experimentation was being accomplished by amateur organizations, which took the place of the stock companies. "The whole renaissance," he said "of amateur theatricals on a dignified same scale owes its origin to George Pierce Baker...
...Egyptian mummies are just like those that infest human bodies today. The characteristics of living matter change only as environment changes. Primitive living molecules were and are proteins. There is no life save in protein. The first evidence of life is metabolism or trading in energy. Biologists say the origin of species is due to changes in the formation of cells. In fact it is due to changes in types of proteins based on differences in environment.?Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, National Research Council...
...whispered that he had been born beneath a Shavian rose. Today, however, weighty British reference works have pinned down this elusive youth with the finality of taxidermists transfixing a butterfly. His name shall be henceforth Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, his birth date Aug. 15, 1888, his land of origin Wales; and if the taxidermists have made a mistake, the joke is still very much upon the butterfly...
...author sees the origin of the American mind in the disintegration of European culture following the breakdown of the mediaeval ethos. Before leaving the mother country, the New England colonist, in the intensity of his Protestantism, had already rejected the historic outcome of Christianity, and to a large extent the ideals and modes of life which had gone with it. Three thousand miles of ocean merely made his disassociation from the past more permanent. The disassociated colonist, in turn, produced the pioneer, who renouncing even the fragments of European culture remaining on the sea-board sought an outlet...
...splendid lectures on China. His subject will be "China: The Tarping Rebellion and Maritime Custom Administration" The significance of these lectures in History 18 need scarcely be pointed out, when the headlines of every morning paper scream out stories of the struggles in modern China, which had their origin in the history of yesterday...