Word: originated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Origin of the Grove plays goes back to one Joseph D. Redding, San Francisco attorney who died last year. He proposed and wrote the first play, The Man of the Forest. In 1911 his Natoma was set to music by Victor Herbert, produced in Philadelphia with Mary Garden and John McCormack.' The best western composers have contributed scores for the Grove plays and Bohemians aver that much beautiful music is thereby lost to the world, as the plays are seldom given public performance...
...layman, so that a knowledge of Zoology will not be necessary in order to follow Dr. Macdonald's talk. It is expected that the lecturer will confine himself to the more familiar aspects of Biology. Professor Macdonald will probably explain at length Darwin's theory of the origin of species and the present conception of evolution that has grown from it. Another topic might be the Mendelian theory of the inheritance of characteristics, or Patseur's work on sterilization. A point of far-reaching importance that will posisbly be discussed is the greater collaboration of chemist and biologist...
...charged that Frau Goebbels is distantly descended from a Jewish family named Friedlander, "The Doctor" produced no evidence but flew into a towering, effective rage. "Let whosoever desires to do so look upon my wife!" he challenged. "Let them convince themselves with their own eyes of her non-Jewish origin!" "WE DEMAND!" Unable, like the Roosevelt regime, to show an upturn in national business, the Hitler Government continued to ride last week the great wave of its successful propaganda, continued to rely more and more heavily on spry little, clubfooted. Dr. Goebbels. Nazi fanatics for a "pure race" contend...
...plain man-in-the-pew nor even for the average preacher-in-the-pulpit are Bishop Barnes' thoroughgoing expositions of matter, space, spacetime, relativity, electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...
...votes polled at the University of Chicago, 548 students pledged themselves to refuse to participate in any war of whatever origin or nature. 746 students pledged themselves not to participate in any war, except in the mainland of the United States, and 346 indicated that they would fight in any war in which the United States was engaged...