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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient forms of present animals, one that lives both in water and on land, apparently secretes a fluid whose components are both animal and vegetable. One ingredient is ergosterol, which is found in cod liver oil. Another is adrenalin exactly like that taken from the suprarenal glands of animals. Two other ingredients act like digitalis, which the purple foxglove produces. There is a reservation in the scientists' report. They do not know how the Chinese dry and prepare their toad venom. Strange things may be added, befogging a true analysis...
...Darrow and one John Thomas Scopes was fined $100 for teaching Evolution in contravention of the State law, Fundamentalists have been saying not only that Evolution is a "mere guess." but that scientists, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, admit that it is a mere guess. Two States have since passed laws like Tennessee's. Other states ban evolutionary textbooks from the public schools. Therefore, the executive committee of the A.A.A.S. at its spring meeting adopted a resolution, prepared by famed Drs. Edwin Grant Conklin, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Henry Fairfield Osborn, John Campbell Merriam and Robert...
...earth, cogitated combining plane and rocket, using the latter for propulsion of the former as has been done experimentally at the Opel works in Germany. The core of his cogitations concerned the materials to be fused to attain speed in and out of Earth's atmosphere. He described two kinds of fuses-one using hydrogen, the other of alcohol-which he calculated would drive a plane 13,120 ft. per sec., or about 9,000 m. p. h., making the 240,000-mile trip in some 27 hours...
...atmosphere, there is little or no crepuscular glow. The sun ''rises" abruptly, deep black shadows retreating sharply before it. In the Arnott film, shown last week by Princeton Professor John Stewart, the silver edge of a lunar morning creeps up the steep walls of the volcano, two miles high. Long shadows of the craggy rim are cast across the crater floor within, slowly shortening until...
...lover, Actor Louis Bennison, also shot. Police thought Bennison killed both. Miss Lawrence, who had been suspended by Actors' Equity Association for "walking out" of Edgar Selwyn's Possession, and recently reinstated, was twice married (Publisher Orson Munn, divorced; Actor Wallace Eddinger, deceased). She had two daughters, Elizabeth Munn, 14, Louisine Munn...