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...Cliff Ruderman oscillates between very fast and not enough." coach Marion said. "If he is fast, he'll win all three of his foil bouts." Phil Rappaport and Art Weismann both have experience, and will start at the other two foil positions...
...Manhattan Financier WALTER W. WEISMANN, 64, chairman of the Aetna Industrial Corp., rocked Chicago's staid, old Libby, McNeill & Libby food-processing firm by claiming that a group of stockholders represented by him owns or controls some 1,500,000 of Libby's 3,600,000 shares of stock. Weismann thought that the company was doing poorly profitwise, asked for changes in the board and a new board chairman. Libby President Charles S. Bridges refused, wrote stockholders that the management was preparing to fight "a raid upon this company." The stockholders' committee that Weismann represented promised...
...From Geneticist August Weismann (1834-1914) of Freiburg University, author of the germ-plasm theory of heredity...
There is no word for immigration in Hebrew, and so "aliyah" meaning "the going up" is always used. This refers to the going up from Egypt to the Promised Land, described in Exodus. "Every one must first make the Exodus from Egypt to really appreciate Palestine" said Chaim Weismann, President of the World Zionist Organization...
...happen to be favorable to the organism will be preserved by the survival of the fittest. Lamarckism is in general disrepute for the simple reason that evidence for it is scanty and dubious. The grosser physical aspects of it have long been disproved, notably by the classic experiment of Weismann who cut off the tails of generation after generation of mice without stopping the next generation from being born with full-length tails. But a few Lamarckists still insist that imponderables like acquired habits and tendencies can be inherited...