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...Chicago is an excrescence of the Middle Ages which can exist only in the world's most Tory-ridden country. He who would destroy all that Chicago stands for would uproot the African jungles and plant a dirty Birmingham or Bradford in its place. Let us leave Chicago alone as something which we thought died out in the old days, and be surprised at its coming alive again...
...hypothesis that the organs of an animal have their own struggle for existence. That is why animals of the same general family have different characteristics. Example: the shovel tusked mastodon developed its lower jaw to scoop food from swamps. The African elephant developed its upper tusks to uproot trees for their tender top leaves. This Osborn theory opposes the Darwinian theory that new types develop from accidental variations of which only those survive which are best adapted to their environment; the Lamarckian theory that new types inherit the changed habits of ancestors; the "vitalistic" theory that a force for change...
...with less delicate testing instruments have rechecked Grand Island's report in the local territory. By paying for the long distance call, any broadcaster in the land can telephone Grand Island, have his station's frequency corrected free in three minutes. Incidentally the monitor station will help spot and uproot unlicensed wireless outfits such as U. S. agents last summer found rum-runners to be secretly operating from summer mansions on Long Island...
...Only yesterday the Mahatma said." she cried in her shrill voice, " 'Women should play a greater part in our non-violent fight than men, for women are the incarnation of non-violence!' We women must go into the forests and uproot all the palm trees. Toddy* is the ruin of Mother India...
...adaptation as might seem applicable to the peculiar conditions in American colleges. We admitted that the Quad Plan, at the present time, stood in our eyes rather as a symbol of social progress than as a ready working system which could be applied tomorrow and could be trusted to uproot all the social ills that afflict this university, or any other. We did not attempt to deceive ourselves; we were theorists. But at the same time we were convinced that these theories were by no means empty...