Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the crown princess and her prince consort looked over their new domain in Washington. Bazy sat down with Editor-in-Chief Frank Waldrop, 43, one of the seven "faithful employees" who sold out to the Colonel after Cissy willed them the paper. She praised him for the way he was running the paper, and persuaded all seven to stay on for the present as hired hands. Cautiously refraining from throwing her 118 Ibs. around right away, Publisher Miller diplomatically announced that she planned to submit some of her columns to Editor Waldrop to "see if they...
...page anniversary edition, SRL gave book lovers a nostalgic look at news events all the way back to 1924. But what most SRL readers would like best were the reappraisals of books of the past quarter-century-though they would not necessarily share the harshness of most of SRL's critical judgments...
...recognized the idealistic character of Mendel's formulation of his results." Lysenko, he argues, opened Haldane's eyes to a new refinement of the truth: "What is inherited is not a set of characters, but the capacity for reacting to the environment in such a way that, in a particular environment, particular characters are developed." Genes "exhibit a good deal of stability in their reproduction," Haldane writes, but not "complete stability, or evolution would be impossible." Parting company with Lysenko, he notes that if genes were "at the mercy of every environmental change, heredity would be impossible...
...both of them he had horses in the act - and everything that goes with horses. We were so cramped backstage that I had only a screen for costume changes and an electrician practically held a light over me while I changed." She added reflectively: "There must be an easier way to make a living...
...desk at Japan's Doshisha University, which he now heads, Yuasa received a call from the U.S. Military Government asking the loan of some of his professors to give Japanese tax collectors a few pointers in bookkeeping. Said Hachiro Yuasa, smiling: "They realize that we ... know the American way of doing things...