Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Hunt Morgan. Many a geneticist suspects that the impacts of cosmic rays also start mutations working in the germ plasm. When the National Geographic Society's balloon Explorer II made its record-breaking flight into the upper air last year, Dr. Victor Jollos of the University of Wisconsin sent jars of fruit flies up with it, outside the gondola. The insects died of cold, but offspring hatched from eggs laid during the flight developed five times the normal number of mutations. Dr. Jollos concluded that some of these were due to cosmic rays, but that the greater number...
Even before Ochsner died the legal battle had begun in a desultory skirmish the luckless geologist having been given to vague, if not sly, business methods Somewhat the same methods also seemed to have carried over into his marital relations. While he was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 he elopec with a nurse named Frances Anna Strasilipka, a Bohemian shoemaker's daughter whom he deserted five months later, leaving her with child, which died at birth That was the last Wife No. i ever heard of Washington Henry Ochsner until someone sent her a clipping...
...remains something of a mystery. He was a pretty good president, in an organizing way, even if he did try to be all things to all men, and did spend his time talking to women's clubs, and hoping for the Republican presidential nomination. It is probably true that Wisconsin is a better organized university, educationnally at least, even if not financially, than when he went there eleven years...
AGNES MOORE HEAD went earnestly ahead to take an M.A. at the University of Wisconsin, read books, played serious roles on the Wisconsin stage, only to find herself doing strange things in radio in order to make a very good living. For example she stooges with that lustiest of radio clowns Phil Baker, under the preposterous name of Miss Heartburn. She is "Min" of the Gumps, now on the air and there plenty of clowning in this...
...conflict raging between Wisconsin's Glenn Frank and his political and educational antagonists has exceeded the bounds of ordinary removal proceedings. Unquestionably in the minds of the people as well as the students and teachers, President Frank's imminent dismissal was actuated by partisan prejudice, for the majority composed only of La Follette appointees, voted to dismiss President Frank. It is, of course, true that a Board of Regents, in continuous association and supervision of a university and its president, must have the power of dismissal, but the motives in this instance were open to question...