Word: ancestored
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Asia. Dryopithecus, a big forest ape that lived in the Siwalik hills of India in Miocene times, before the Glacial Age, is the common ancestor of man, the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and other primates. That is the conclusion of the staff of the American Museum of Natural Hostory, after more than a year's study of three fragments of the beast's jawbone discovered for the Museum by Barnum Brown (suspicious cognomen...
Reverend Potter does not recommend, however, that the full paraphernalia of Japanese ancestor worship be adopted. An American touch is to be gained by substituting extensive use of the radio for periodical visits to tombs and shrines. And were only the Eastern mystery of an ancestral fetish to be considered, there could be no doubt as to the popularity of this new radio religion. Inasmuch as it may be interpreted as thinly disguised propaganda for the intensive study of American history it seems, at least among the "rising generation" foredoomed to failure...
...Hossain attacked the value of force as a remedy for anything, thus reversing the teachings of his great ancestor. "What good did the slaughter of ten million youths do in the war?" he asked. "Once we admit the validity of force, we must have hatred, international exclusions, and quarrels, and we must be prepared for the perpetuation of these international hatreds...
After seven barren years and two successive defeats it is only natural to be wary and to keep a finger on the trigger. But, cautious and slow as he may be, John is a sturdy old gentleman, with all the determination of his ancestors who lived in the woods and treated with the Indians, and he has never quailed before the dog from New Haven or the tiger from the Princeton jungle. Today he knows that the sages are counting him out, are backing the tiger in the annual stalking match. But he remembers the advice of his even more...
...drawing room comedy with the death's-head flag of a pirate brig fluttering steadily in the background. In the course of an evening when the country house of Ambrose Applejohn is to be robbed of a certain hidden treasure, he falls asleep and dreams himself his bloody ancestor, the pirate, Captain Applejack. Awakened, he finds the memories have metamorphosed his mind. From a sleepy country gentleman he turns savage master. The robbers suffer...