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...have yet to search the motivation of those several instances of State laws which prohibit the teaching of evolution. It was traditional religion that thus invoked the heavy hand of legislation. Elsewhere, without invoking the law but with its extended and varied influence, traditional religion is now effecting a widespread repression of the teaching of this central principle of biology in our public schools. It sometimes forces the resignation of able zoologists even from college positions; and in high schools and late primary grades there are probably today few places where straightforward teaching of the unmitigated evolution principle...
...hundred fronts and its ultimate direction and meaning are as exciting as they are as yet unpredictable. The great process of U. S. daily journalism is fashioned along reportorial rather than interpretive lines. Therefore, the very nature of the newspaper business-as well as the diffuse and widespread nature of the phenomenon itself-has made it almost impossible for U. S. newspaper readers to discover, except in opinions of the small partisan press of the Left, the inevitable larger action taking place behind the daily tactics of the Labor struggle. The motivations that lie beneath the strikes, picketings, conferences...
...Legislature: that it forward his pet scheme of a nation-wide system of TVAs by voting to link Nebraska's three big hydroelectric systems. A bill to accomplish that object died-in committee, killed by a deal between its friends and foes. That has led to a widespread suspicion that with only 43 legislators now to be persuaded instead of 133, the new Legislature is perhaps even more easily influenced than the old. Governor Cochran's legislative spokesman and the session's outstanding member, 35-year-old Charles Albert Dafoe of Tecumseh (fourth cousin of the Dionne...
Whether the misgivings are justified or not, they certainly exist. They appear to be widespread. Obviously, Dean Landis will begin his duties in an environment far less friendly than that of Deans Langdell, Ames, Pound and Acting Dean Morgan. --The Boston Herald
Those cases presenting tumors which are known to be radio-sensitive and in which the disease is not too widespread may be expected to show early improvement from Roentgen rays which have so great a potential...