Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fill this astounding hiatus on the bookshelves of science, Dr. Arthur MacDonald, U. S. anthropologist, wrote a letter to the Lancet, printed with the editorial, asking people everywhere to describe to him just how different people die. Whether a person dies in the sweaty writhings of agony or with the weary sigh of resignation, whether he rattles with final rales or lets his breath cease gently, Dr. MacDonald wants to know. It will be interesting to know truthfully how long before death famed men devise their "last" wise words; how long before utter extinction the moribund can sense the torturing...
...Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka is off to search the shores of Kotzebue and Norton Sounds, Alaska, for traces of battlegrounds storied in Eskimo legend, where Asian ancestors of the Indians may have fought among themselves during successive waves of migration across the icefields from Siberia and the Diomede Islands...
...statement by Lawyer Howland S. England of Detroit was also published, indicating that the experiments would follow the ideas of Anthropologist F. G. Cruikshank* of London. The latter's researches have convinced him that offspring capable of reproducing themselves can be obtained by crossing orangoutangs with the yellow race, gorillas with the black race and chimpanzees with the white race, the theory being that the divisions of the anthropoid and human races pair off thus most closely as kindred types...
...Fairfax, Mo., Frank Plumb, anthropologist, unearthed a skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches with a low, slanting skull that suggested the Mayan custom of flattening infants' heads; with a pear-shaped stone inside it such as the Mayans put in the mouths of their dead; with a bit of pottery nearby and a translucent stone carved with a Mayan figure...
Died. Dr. William Curtis Farabee. 60, famed anthropologist, at Washington, Pa., of pernicious anemia...