Word: swann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been in Richmond last week it would have heard something very gratifying. Edwin Grant Conklin, Princeton's famed biologist, declared that it was a mistake to attribute the origin of the biological cell theory, whose centenary is being observed in scientific circles, to two Germans, Schleiden and Swann. "Their theory," said Dr. Conklin, "was a special and in important respects an erroneous one. There is no present biological interest in their theory. . . . Cells were first seen, named, described and figured by Robert Hooke ... 170 years before the work of Schleiden and Swann. Hooke . . . described among many other things...
...worked hard all day and in the evening held canning bees and seancés. Its women wore short tunics and ankle-length bloomers instead of world's clothes: hoop skirts and petticoats. Its men feared God and would do anything in the world for old Father Swann, once he got talking. The main building where the Templers slept had an elaborate lacy cornice and rounded corners to keep out evil spirits: Father Swann had built it according to the specifications of messengers from the Other Plane...
...Father Swann's son Isaiah, brought up with the other children of the commune, came back from Yale with misgivings about the Other Plane. He wanted to marry Dinah, the pretty, credulous ward of the Temple. Father Swann told him he had better wait. Meanwhile, Father Swann rarely got spirit communications any more; the Temple's mediums were out of practice. When the Temple went through its first crisis, a diphtheria epidemic, Father Swann ignored the advice of the spirit doctor and the spectral Association of Healthfulizers and cast out the Sore-Throat Devil...
...Garden of Eden. That broke up because of his predilection for young girls. During the diphtheria epidemic the Templers had not been able to harvest the crops. They had no way of getting through the winter. James Prince had $20,000. Despite the opposition of Isaiah, Father Swann took...
...Crimson team was composed of John Bentinck-Smith and Robert M. Page; Charles P. Swann and David Epstein; Roger Willcox and Robert B. Soldman; Edward W. McNitt and George N. White...