Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inquisition until it began to look as if Galileo was proving it. His first brush with the Holy Office resulted in nothing more than an eloquent, friendly warning from the great theologist, Cardinal Bellarmin. It is on this occasion that Harsanyi has him make (gaily) his famous-probably apocryphal -remark: "Eppur si muove" ("Nevertheless it moves"). The heat was not really turned on until Galileo was 69, when Pope Urban VIII in a personal pet had the sick old man scared into recantation...
...remedy for gout, colchicine is a slightly poisonous alkaloid compound which occurs in the seeds of the meadow saffron or autumn crocus, Colchicum autumnale. Two years ago Dr. Albert Francis Blakeslee, famed geneticist of the Carnegie Institution's station on Long Is land, announced the discovery of remark able effects produced on plants by colchicine (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937). The drug causes a doubling of the chromosomes (heredity carriers) in the germ cells of vegetables and flowers, producing sharp changes which breed true. It increased the growth rates of tobacco, phlox, onions, pumpkins, cosmos, radishes, portulaca, digitalis. It abolished...
...Handsome, uncauliflowered Billy Conn, light heavyweight champion of the world: the Edward J. Neil Memorial Plaque of the New York Boxing Writers' Association, for his "outstanding contribution to boxing in 1939." Outstanding contribution last week: his remark to sluggish Heavyweight Henry Cooper (his onetime gym mate) while beating him in Manhattan: "Hey, Henry, we're stinkin' the joint...
English history records that a bitter civil war known as the Wars of the Roses fought between the House of York and the House of Lancaster really arose from a similar remark made by a member of the House of Lancaster. The scurrilous knave was compelled to eat his words, and to the time of his death he was never allowed to taste real Yorkshire pudding. This was considered as a form of medieval torture...
...Hoover an injustice when you say he cannot tell a joke (TIME, Dec. 18). To prove that you're wrong, simply let me refer you to a remark he made a year or two ago, concerning the famous initialed institutions of the New Deal. He said that all but five letters were used in these, and that all we needed was a Quick Loans Corporation for Xylophones, Yachts, and Zithers to exhaust the alphabet. . . . Regardless of whether or not you think this one is funny, it unquestionably comes under the heading of a joke...