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...August Thyssen, an industrialist of the old school, proud and independent, with mines, mills and fac- tories...
...quiet pool contains, unseen by the casual observer, a whole society of strange and opposite creatures, thrown together by chance or nature, fiercely loving and hating. So Eamor, an English country house, where life in general seemed to move as calmly and placidly as a still day in August, proved the focus and battleground for a certain group of di- verse, opposed personalities, related by accidental ties of blood or fate. The secret, incessant clash of these personalities, now and then flaring out into active conflict as abrupt as the glitter of lightning, serves as the theme of this lengthy...
...giraffe is long because its ancestors had to stretch to reach the foliage), was taken over in part by Darwin, who believed it to be one of the methods through which natural selection operates. Biologists then reacted from this doctrine until the opposite extreme was reached in August Weismann, whose theory that the germ-plasm of each generation is handed on and remains distinct from the body cells, logically excludes the transmission of acquired traits. Weismannism has held the field since 1890 and still dominates the thinking of most biologists...
...July 1, August 31, September 22-days of wrath in the coal business...
...great handicap in the use of the airplane for mail carrying has hitherto been the loss of time through inability to fly at night. According to a statement by Postmaster General New, night flying will be inaugurated in July or August and a continuous service between New York and San Francisco will cover the intervening 3,000 miles in 28 hours...