Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Parker refused to consider the idea, even privately. Parker was 32, Billy Talbert 30 and Gardnar Mulloy 33-and they had all been playing the tennis circuit for years & years-but they were not oldtimers yet. Said Frank: "I don't let myself think that...
Clean Blotters. O'Grady likes to think of Belmont Park, with its 453 verdant acres, as a prosperous city-and of himself as the police commissioner. Says he: "No city of 20,000 has a police blotter with so few entries...
...cause célèbre in Soviet Russia, has not been fully reported in Budapest.) Until he could be sure, said Haldane, that Lysenko's current theories are unscientific and that opponents had been punished for disagreeing, he would make no decision. "I don't think a political body," he said, "should decide scientific, theories. I want evidence that those who disagreed were punished." He would not decide where he stood until "shown that the decision to outlaw Mendelian genetics has made teaching it illegal...
Nazi Genetics? This winter Haldane plans to lecture on genetics in Communist-dominated Prague. "I shall say just what I think in Prague," he declared stoutly, "and if what I say does not agree with Lysenko, it's just...
...hardly a fault of style, and scarcely a moment's violence is done to Gay's satire." The Observer's Charles Stuart was more lyrical: "... I have been wakening up every morning with new filaments of the exquisite score running through my . .. head. There, I think, you have a sure test of fine music...