Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average layman would probably be skeptical about the practicality of the Peabody, yet the facts show that such doubts would be unfounded. In peacetime, for example, the bone laboratories in the Museum are often asked by the police to examine skulls for possible cases of homicide. In wartime, the anthropologist has even greater usefulness, for it is up to his research and his statistics to determine what should be the size of a machine-gun turret so as to fit the greatest number of soldiers and to draw up dimensions for uniforms to clothe the average draftee. And what...
Died. Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, 58, famed Polish anthropologist; of a heart attack; in New Haven. He was one of the first anthropologists to study primitive societies at first hand, lived among the savages of the Trobriand Islands off New Guinea for four years, after his studies there wrote a series of books (including The Sexual Life of Savages in N.W. Melanesia) which became the most famed of his voluminous output...
...Grant Study in Social Adjustments", to give the full dress title, ocoupies the made-over squash courts and swimming pool known as "Big Tree." Here a seven-man crew: a physician, and anthropologist, a physiologist, two psychiatrists, a psychologist, and a persomel worker join in a cooperative, correlative effort and by studying selected groups of Sophomores, are attempting to analyze the forces that have produced normal young...
...minor physical defects such as poor teeth, frequent headaches, flat feet and certain less desirable personality traits. Seventy per cent of 56 students tagged by the psychiatrists were labeled the same way by the physician, who based his opinion only on pulse rate and blood pressure measurements. When the anthropologist and the psychiatrist got together, they found that a lack of harmony in body measurements in a man may be related to personality weakness. Breadth of shoulder in relation to calf circumference, and skull circumference in relation to chest circumference are among the anthropological features which may point to particular...
Almost every conceivable measurement from the length of a man's nose to the width of his feet is recorded by Dr. Carl C. Seltzer, the anthropologist. The student's height, standing up, sitting, and lying down are noted, as well as his lung capacity...