Word: ot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fundamentalist League, the Anti-Evolution League. The names BRYAN and DARWIN continued to ring in crowded halls, though afte-the Scopes climax the newspapers paid small attention. Mississippi and Arkansas followed the lead of Tennessee, passed laws against the teaching of Evolution in State-supported schools. In the legislatures ot 16 other States similar bills were introduced. And last week citizens of the U. S. had to realize, perhaps wearily, that the tumult and the shouting about Evolution has started again with vigor renewed...
...commercial factories in the United States. The Travel Air was recently recapitalized and is now rated at $1,875,000, the heaviest capitalized company limited to the production of commercial aircraft. Construction now under way will make it the unchallenged, greatest commercial airplane factory in the nation. . . . Various models ot Travel Air sell from...
...Biddle last week inaugurated a return to the sporting traditions of a hundred years ago by buying, for his personal amusement, an interest in a professional fighter. The fighter was René De Vos, Belgian contender for the middleweight championship; sports - writers laughed merrily for days at the notion ot a respectable person engaging in the fight racket and of a decently dressed and wellspoken person undertaking to pat and rub a bloody pugilist between the rounds of a fight...
...snapped the surly Cockney, "Don't yer get pokin' fun at me! W'ot's yer real monniker...
...from living tubercle bacilli. The acid is new to science. When it is injected into rabbits it produces in their bodies the nodules peculiar as symptoms of tuberculosis, but of no other disease. Said R. J. Anderson of Yale: "This discovery that a nonliving substance may be the cause ot tubercular growth, opens up an entirely new mode of approach in the search for an immunizing agent. In the past there has been no way of proving whether the growth of the tubercle in tubercular organisms was the result of direct action of the living bacillus...