Word: ancestored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country was populated and cultivated principally by Teutons". Without the Swedes and the Germans, we are told, "the adoption of our constitution and union of our states would not have been accomplished". An Irish Society, reporting on "The Irishman as the Builder of the Nation", has disclosed a Celtic ancestor for George Washington; while Jewish-Americans in commemorating the death of General Solomon announced him as the real hero of Gettysburg, "the only man who did not dodge when Lee's guns thundered...
...Workmen at St. Ouen, on the Island of Jersey, English Channel, found a prehistoric skull at first claimed to be that of an ape-woman older than Pithecanthropus (500,000 years), our earliest known near human ancestor. But Sir Arthur Keith and Dr. Smith Woodward, of the British Museum, believe it to be of the Neolithic period (from 5,000 to 10,000 years old). It was found in a burial place of people of that time, where bones and implements are plentiful...
Since 1866, when Mother Advocate's ancestor was hushed up, student publications here have been unmolested. It has not been merely for want of offense. Some of Lampy's outrageous puns might well bear repression. But the University, often criticised by the western colleges for ultra-conservatism, has firmly established the freedom of the student press; Michigan, for one, seems to have retrogressed toward censorship by the authorities...
...will be the up-and-coming, ectoplastic, ghosts of today with a future as well as a past. But the event is equally important from the social, economics and scientific standpoints. The battered old castle of Lord Woodbine or Baron Willis where the whispered communications of the one-armed ancestor with no chin have gathered clandestinely throngs of faithful retainers from time immemorial, can now call attention proudly and publicly to the fact that it is haunted...
...scarcely hope to make her resources keep up with her population. The problem is both social and economic; there must be both restriction of population and enlargement of industry. Indeed the problem is fundamentally religious, because she will not restrict her population until she radically modifies her ideas of ancestor worship...