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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examine his skulls, express any opinion he liked. Dr. Gregory (of Columbia University, Manhattan's American Museum) is a top-notch paleontologist who knows as much about the evolution of primate teeth as anyone alive. He went, looked. By last week he was back and perfectly willing to add his opinion that the Broom finds are of "exceptional importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ape-Men and Prigs | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...small-brained . . . man-apes of South Africa," observed Dr. Gregory, "now add their mute testimony that man, like his less ambitious cousins, the modern anthropoid apes, is a descendant of the late Tertiary dryopethicine ape stock of Europe, Asia, and Africa." In Dr. Gregory's opinion, indubitable apes evolved into indubitable humans during a profound structural upheaval compassed within the past ten or twelve million years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ape-Men and Prigs | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Finally as a foreign student who has studied in Germany and Italy I may add that in neither country I found a medical service which could be compared to the attention Harvard is giving her students. Helmut W. Schumann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

...ADD CAPITULATIONS OF 1938: TIME DEMOTES ITSELF TO PROPAGANDIST RABBLE UNDER PRESSURE OF SUPREME DICTATOR CIRCULATION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...richest rewards among the four new peerages, two baronetcies, 35 knighthoods and miscellaneous decorations distributed went to a gifted scientist who has brought his subject to the masses and a sailor who has brought the British Navy up to snuff. His Majesty was graciously pleased to add Sir James Jeans (The Mysterious Universe, etc.) and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield to the Order of Merit (British membership limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honors | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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