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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mean average flow of the Niagara Kiver is approximately 212,000 cubic feet per second, which is equivalent to 572,400,000 tons of water a day, which in the 163 years from 1776 to 1939 is 34,054,938,000,000 tons...
...Second Division. After the first division between laymen and churchmen over Darwin came a second division between scientists who did not question that evolution was a fact. The Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection declined in scientific favor. This "eclipse of Darwinism" began in the 19th Century, reached into the 20th. The tendency was to doubt that natural selection-the slow combing out and accumulation of small variations-could carry the whole burden of evolution. Many scientists grew so contemptuous of natural selection that they called it pure fiction. Darwin knew nothing of the Mendelian heredity laws, nothing about...
...second half From Vienna did much better. There was fun in a sketch of a refugee learning English in Six Easy Lessons; fun and charm alike in Little Ballerina, where dainty Ilia Roden plays a daydreaming ballet pupil who quits her routine to imitate Mary Wigman, Pavlova, an Aquacade swimmer. And the finale was a potpourri of those gay, nostalgic Viennese tunes to which all the world has waltzed and to which it is impossible to goose-step...
...realists. "All this is very popular," snorted Florentine Michelangelo. "The least artistic inteligence can find therein something that appeals to it ... but it lacks rhythm and proportion. . . ." The artist who most nearly united Flemish delicacy and Italian power of composition was Hans Memling, who lived in Bruges in the second half of the 15th Century...
...Sunday afternoon a gay & lyric troupe of 33 took the stage. They were the Wheeling Steelmakers, employes, or relatives of employes, in twelve plants of Wheeling Steel Corp. in the Ohio Valley. The occasion: a weekend outing & spree and a World's Fair broadcast to wind up their second season...