Word: burnet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move in a twilight zone between life and inanimate matter, scientists used to think that they might represent the primitive beginnings of life. Many experts now believe that it is the other way around. One of the world's top virus authorities, Australia's Dr. Frank M. Burnet, a champion of the evolution-in-reverse theory, contends that viruses may once have been bacteria and that they are steadily degenerating into more simple forms...
Overton growled: "The Senator from Ohio [Taft] is not yet the whole Senate, no matter what he may think about it." South Carolina's Burnet Maybank shouted hoarsely: "After all, Mississippi is a sovereign state." After all, Bilbo was Mississippi's choice. Bilbo slouched at his old desk, clutching his cigar...
...Bilbo several times, and he's really a pleasant looking little man, in spite of everything you hear." So spoke Miss Roberta Maybank, Radcliffe '47, daughter of the distinguished Senator Burnet R. Maybank of South Carolina, in a statement to the press yesterday afternoon on the front steps of Whitman Hall...
...BURNET C. TUTHILL...
...DUNCAN BURNET University of Georgia Athens...