Word: creationism
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...Lateiner bridge over the Miljacka River, a volley of pistol shots rang out. The Archduke and his wife slumped forward, dead. That shooting by the Serajevo bridge, fuse of the World War, brought death to millions. Incidentally it brought independence from Austria to the province of Bosnia and the creation of the Jugoslav Kingdom. Last week all Jugoslavia celebrated the anniversary...
More successful and profitable than attempts to create gold from mercury is the actual creation of electricity at Hartford, Conn. The Hartford Electric Light Co. has been using a mercury-vapor turbine to run its generators since 1923. That turbine was shut down while last week a second was prepared for operation. William Le Roy Emmet of General Electric Co. invented and developed the machines. General Electric built them...
...Immediate creation of an Economic General Staff, (a MacDonald idea) modeled on Conservatives' Committee of Imperial Defense, to consist of the Lord Privy Seal, Chancellor of the Exchequer, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister of Labor. This staff will coordinate the work of all industrial and economic departments...
Synchronously with the creation of these huge public benefactions, John D. Rockefeller has been building himself a huge private estate at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. And that too brought him into the news last week...
Department of Genetics. Charles Benedict Davenport, 63, was an associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1904. He had the idea of a station for experimental evolution, and to him was given the direction of the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor at its creation a quarter-century ago. Its first work was on plants and animals. Mrs. Harriman a few years later established a eugenics record office adjoining his station. The two were later combined under him, and his supervision extended over research on all forms of life. He is still director...