Word: evolutionism
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Pravda spoke in its own esoteric tongue. From the turgid depths of Marxist dialectics it dredged up the basic criterion for Soviet art: "The significance of the ideological and creative evolution of the Moscow Art Theater . . . consists in its recognition of partisanship in art."
Peking Man-Sinanthropus pekinensis-was the paleontological sensation of the 1920s. To Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, Peking Man "ranks as the most important discovery in the whole history of human evolution." His first traces-two teeth-were found in 1921 in a "dragon-bone" cave* at Choukoutien, 40 miles southwest...
Ancient man's evolution into a creature standing on two legs modified his skeleton as well as his habits. The spine curved and grew longer; the ilia or wings of the pelvis flattened out; the last vertebrae became a flexible lever on which the body's weight was...
As the year ended, the U.S. was again in the midst of a major economic adjustment, of a new stage of industrial evolution proceeding so swiftly that it might better be called revolution. The nation was baffled and dismayed by battles at the economic barricades, by sniping from the housetops...
Franco had been warned. U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour, before he left Madrid last month, told him that the U.S. was displeased with Spain's tardy evolution toward political freedom. Later British Ambassador Sir Victor Mallet drove home the same point.