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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treaty of Versailles, the treaty that was going to insure the peace of Europe forever and ever, Amen. No celebrations marked the date. Instead, all eyes were on the man who had torn that document to shreds, Adolf Hitler. That day he was on a Bavarian mountain top directing a campaign to reclaim for the German Fatherland the Free City of Danzig, neutralized and placed in customs union with renascent Poland by the treaty-makers. As the Führers well-oiled propaganda machine went into high gear, as his high-powered Army stood by prepared, if need...
They arrived at Sarajevo just before 10 and paused to review a contingent of local troops. Then Franz Ferdinand got into a high-sided touring car with the top down. Sophie sat at his side and General Potiorek, the Governor of the Province, occupied a jump seat in front of them. The procession of four cars formed-one ahead and two behind them-and they drove on toward the Town Hall...
...face, admired the Post's campaign, made a deal with Publishers Service Inc., a Stern promotion subsidiary to take it over, cleansed completely of its voucher-clipping taint. The Star organized a National Committee for Music Appreciation, plugged the Committee and music in general to the top of its bent, began distributing records last February at $1.39 per set. Distribution to last week: 62,000 sets. And the Star beamed benignly as the Committee offered the album scheme to other papers-always with the stipulation: no coupons, no subscription drives in connection with it. By last week...
Just 16 men are to appear, top-flight biologists and physicists all, at a symposium. In one room they will sit as on a sort of scientific Olympus, and each will make a formal statement of the most interesting truths he knows about biological cells and protoplasm. Then they will swap ideas and comments and, inevitably, some of them will, in the most abstruse scientific terms, call some others liars...
...advanced the Lamarckian view that acquired characteristics (e.g., muscular development or manual skill) can be inherited. Conklin defended the opposite view, boldly stated that inherited characteristics are determined solely by the germ plasm. In the course of time biology gave him the palm over Bigwig Cope. Today almost all top-notch biologists have swept Lamarckism under the rug. A Conklin crack...