Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artificial Fertilization. Biologists had long known that certain low invertebrates, such as rotifers or plant lice, normally reproduce themselves without fertilization by the male, by a process called parthenogenesis (virgin birth). Loeb proved that in many other species parthenogenesis can be induced artificially by treating the egg in various ways, i.e., keeping it in sea water, in salt or sugar concentrations at a certain temperature, in certain acid solutions, pricking it with a needle. In 1899 he caused the unfertilized eggs of sea-urchins to 'develop into swimming larvae and remain alive. Similar results were obtained with starfish, worms...
From the recent mushroom growth of Harvard recollections, it is evident that the University is not to be allowed to forget that "You are old, Father William", and furthermore that there have been ravages as well as advances during the aging process. Dean Donham, in an interesting study of how the times have changed, numbers among the ravages the introduction of the fearful cafeteria. Granting that this soul-killing institution does devastate many a good, home-bred stomach, there be defenders who may well argue that it is better to snatch and run at a cafeteria, than to snatch elsewhere...
...Will some popular jazz composer acquire the technique that is necessary to raise his work out of the jazz class or will some 'highbrow' composer make use of the principles of jazz? I don't know. It may reach out either way. The danger is that in the process the jazz will lose its original flavor. The result would be a hopeless failure. A symphonic composition is not good just because it is a symphonic composition--jazz is not bad just because it is jazz...
...Institution in Washington has just published a report of its studies on the subject. The investigators find that body build seems to be controlled by many factors, with fleshiness tending slightly to dominate over slenderness. There is a marked tendency for persons of similar build to intermarry, and this process of selection tends to perpetuate the inheritance of certain types of body structure. The statistics indicate also that some diseases are particularly associated with slender build: tuberculosis, pneumonia, nervousness, melancholia; whereas diabetes, inflammation of the kidneys, apoplexy, hardening of the arteries and numerous diseases of the stomach and intestines...
...depend on foreign oil companies. (There was a rumor that the Labor Government would sell this stock.) ¶ John Hodge, prominent Laborite and ex-Minister of Labor and Pensions under Lloyd George, said: "The great combines which are being formed in this and other countries are simply an evolutionary process and as soon as the steel, iron and tinplate works are all in one big combine it will be easy to socialize...