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...Tiki. After the war, Heyerdahl gathered around him a group of his countrymen, most of them veterans of Norway's underground, and led them to Peru. There they were joined by a Swedish anthropologist. Their daring plan: to sail to Tahiti. 5,000 miles from Callao. If they make Tahiti safely, the world's anthropologists will have to admit that ancient Peruvians could have done...
From Harvard's ever-ready Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton (Why Men Behave Like Apes and Vice Versa), the girls learned how to pick a good husband. Thin men, the professor warned, are apt to be mumblers who hate people and tire easily. Two-fisted Atlases stamp around the house complaining about the lack of exercise; besides, they grow old young. The best husband-a nice, sociable type who appreciates the comforts of home-is the fat man, or "butterball type...
Miss America-the average, not the contest-winner-got sized up by a high-ranking U.S. anthropologist, and probably wished she hadn't. How she stacks, according to Dr. Wilton M. Krogman of the University of Chicago: 5 ft. 3 in., 135 lbs. (fattish), has "tires" just below the waist and stenographer's-spread standing up, oftener than not is knock-kneed and potbellied, waddles when she walks, and "only goes out two inches from the chest to the bust-line...
...true, it was the biggest news in the world. Anthropologist Raphael E. G. Armattoe, interviewed in Londonderry last week, said that Russia had developed, tested and could mass produce an atom bomb that "rendered the Anglo-American one almost obsolete." It was no bigger than a tennis ball, had a horizontal pulverization range of 53 miles and a vertical lift of more than 6.2 miles, generated a temperature "in the neighborhood of several million degrees centigrade...
...York Times buried the story under a small head on page five. It also buried Dr. Armattoe in a real bit of down-the-nose, deadpan journalism. At the end of its story the Times said: "Dr. Armattoe, in his capacity as an anthropologist, was quoted in a London dispatch last April 29 as having said that brunettes 'in the main have more brains' than blondes...