Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interpretation. In stead of losing herself in a charac ter - Camille, for example - she used it simply as a mold in which to pour her own glowing vitality. She was born 78 years ago. Her father was French, her mother of mixed Dutch and Jewish origin. Her first great triumph came at the age of 22, as Cordelia in King Lear, at the Theatre Francois. Later, feeling her intense individuality cramped by the rooted traditions of the Francais, she left it after repeated quarrels. Her greatest part was probably that of Zanzetti in Coppee's Le Paseant...
...most important books " in their effect on history and civilization, four are distinctly within the field of science: Aristotle's History of Animals (about 354 B. C.); Copernicus' The Revolution of the Heavens (A. D. 1543); Bacon's New Atlantis (1624); Darwin's Origin of Species (1859); while Plato's Republic (about 393 B. C.) and Marco Polo's Travels (1299) might easily be tagged as sociology and geography...
...noisy disturbance, tumult, or trouble. Originally Cambridge, now universal. Seventy years ago it was written ROUE which would indicate a French origin, a profligate or disturber of the peace...
...Wetmore will talk on "The Origin and Evolution of Lentieels" at the Zoological Laboratory, Room 46, at 4.45 o'clock this afternoon. The lecture, which is given under the auspices of the Biological Club, will be open to members of the University...
...thinks are the most important in the world's literature. His list is as surprising as his thoughts on other subjects of equal significance. The first amazing feature is that he includes no history of the world. He puts down Aristotle's "History of Animals", and Darwin's "Origin of the Species"; was it professional modesty that prevented the inclusion of his own compendium...