Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pass upon old works of art which are still in circulation. Thus it would be logical and just for a warden of morals to take exception to many passages in Shakespeare, to large chunks of the Holy Bible. An expert upon nude statuary might condemn, and rightly condemn, the Venus de Milo...
Scientists have long pondered the possibility of life on Venus. Now conies the theory that the first living organisms on the earth were visitors from Venus. Svante Arrhenius, world famed Scandinavian scientist, used almost every branch of scientific knowledge and gave the world this theory just before he died...
...astronomer, Dr. Arrhenius took up the problem, calculated the average temperature on Venus, found it to be the temperature these bacteria like best. Other conditions being suitable this must be their Fatherland. But how did they come to earth...
...physicist, Dr. Arrhenius turned to his formulas and calculated that sunbeams were their express trains. Now and again Venus gets directly between the sun and the earth. The sun's rays skim the surface of the planet, picking up any adventurous thermophilic bacteria that are in the way and shooting them to earth. The trip takes only two days and the speed is so great that many would survive the cold interstellar spaces they whiz through on the journey...
...meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh. . . ." A good many things made Rex to offend, and these were quietly deleted from the lives of Sam, her husband and from Flagg and Fern, her healthy twins. The picture of dancing satyrs, the little statue of Venus, the table wine, the Sunday rotogravures-one by one they mysteriously disappeared. Life began to be a queer, suspicious business. Fern was shipped away to school-she would not come back. Flagg overheard his parents quarreling viciously-he ran away. But Rex was pushed at last into young manhood...