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Facts of this sort were pointed out to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis last week by Dr. Oscar Riddle, 58, crack geneticist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in an address entitled "The Confusion of Tongues." Dr. Riddle asserted that it was high time...
Some 30 years ago a young lawyer from the progressive State of Wisconsin went to Washington, began his career working for the Interstate Commerce Commission. For two years he helped regulate the primordial greed of those early monsters of brutal business methods, the railroads. In 1908 he moved from the...
Those amongst us who have harbored a lingering desire to gambol o'er the greensward unhindered by embarrassing raiment, ever since the appearance of the Merrill's famous treatise, will not have to repress their primordial tendencies much longer. Strong rumor hath it that the Olympian League of West Haverstraw...
In the introduction, practically the only part of any length in the book written by Mrs. Beard, she says, "If there is in all history any primordial force, that force is woman, continuer, protector, preserver of life, instinctive, active, thoughtful, ever bringing thought back from sterile speculation to the center...
This neglect of the homemaking angle of womanhood seems almost unprecedented in view of the fact that the author stresses an particularly in her introduction the fact that woman is "primordial force..continuer, protector, preserver of life, instinctive, active, thoughtful, ever bringing thought back from sterile spectulation to the center...