Word: rutting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which, says Lysenko, is nonsense. Heredity, he believes, changes spontaneously-and can be changed artificially. His key chapter has the thundering Marxian title "The Liquidation of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms." He explains that a plant variety often gets into a rut. Thus, it tries to produce descendants exactly like itself. But buried in its germ plasm are characteristics which have been suppressed because they did not benefit the plant in its accustomed environment. All that is needed to bring these buried characteristics to light is to "liquidate the plant's conservatism...
...year-old damyankee who looks like Harold Lloyd, was born in Boston. He originated the Claghorn character, but Allen writes the gags. Kenny once knew a Texan who had the Senator's trick of saying a few words, then backing up like a flivver in a rut and saying them over again. For 15 years, Announcer and part-time Actor Delmar has been entertaining friends with his Claghorn act. Fred heard him and signed...
...Rut. In Washington, Edward Robert Dixon was arrested on a traffic violation charge for the seventh time by the same...
...Rut. In Cleveland, police arrested Alfred Johnson, a paroled auto thief, who was speeding to an appointment with his parole officer in an auto he had stolen for the purpose...
June Ally son, pregnant and playing bull-fiddle in a war-shot orchestra led by Jose Iturbi, hasn't heard from her husband in the South Pacific for months. The other girlish in the orchestra (that old backstage rut) intercept a telegram from the War department and fake a letter from the husband to the mother-to-be. It's all a bit irreverent...