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Many would be the jobs lost, the careers ruined, were U. S. Democratic Party Leader Franklin Delano Roosevelt to ape Italian Fascist Party Leader Benito Mussolini in prescribing gymnastic tests for his party henchmen. Doubtful it is that sickly, 64-year-old Speaker William Bankhead of the House of Representatives, could pass a rope-skipping examination; that suffering Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, would survive a pole-vaulting test; that Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley would fare well with the broad jump, or that bald, short House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn could throw a discus very...
...perfectly preserved. It is a circular piece of fossilized bone with a hole in the middle which resembles a large lifesaver the kind you eat. Although his colleagues have not yet confirmed his suspicion, spinachseed is certain that the fossil is that of the left nostril of a metamorphic ape. He has already named the ape Spinachanthropus in honor of its modest discoverer...
...events, if Spinachseed is right, the department is going to be in a hot spot. The official report on the metamorphic ape is due sometime in July, and this year's Geology 1 class may be required to retake the course next year under the new rules...
...course in Physics, probably course C, and ine in Chemistry are required. Chemistry 2 is especially valuable but cannot ordinarily be taken without previous experience in Chemistry. Anthropology A, on the biological evolution of man from the ape is suggested for an allied course. A reading knowledge of French and German is advisable. Either Physics or Chemistry should be taken Freshman year with Biology D and the other the next year...
Terra of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences wirelessed from Java that he had found in Java and Burma crude Old Stone Age tools which convinced him that contemporaries of China's Peking Man and Java's Ape-Man (Pithecanthropus erectus) had wandered over the whole Asiatic coast as far west as the Indian Ocean. These old men of China and Java are considered the most ancient of human fossils-500,000 to 1,000,000 years old. Dr. de Terra now believes that the oldest toolmaking culture in Asia originated in the southeastern part...