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Mongolia's climate changed. Dry winds shriveled the vegetation; drifting sand built hills on old lakebeds. What had once been a green animal paradise became a desert called Gobi, sparsely inhabited by a sturdy but backward breed of humans, together with herds of wild asses, antelopes, domesticated sheep and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

This test of evolution would be decisive only in the event that pregnancy, whether productive of healthy offspring or not, could be induced. If it could, fresh and final evidence would be established that humans and anthropoids belong to a common genus of animal life. To be complete, the hybrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Men and Apes | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

Last year Harvard was victimized by a certain Mr. Dunton, advertised as a rising star of the new school, whose "Wild Asses" would already be4 forgotten if it were not selling for fifty cents in bookstores on the Square. And now Cornell Woolrich, a Columbia undergraduate, has written of Broadway...

Author: By H. W. F. ., | Title: The Wild Life Problem | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

****Laplanders keep reindeer for milk: roving Tartars mares; Bedouins camels; pastoral tribes sheep; mountain tribes goats; tropical ones buffaloes. Asses' milk is highly esteemed far and wide. Each type of milk has its peculiar flavor, sometimes nauseating to the uninitiated. In the wild state, these animals, and the cow also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Milk | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

The three most considerable articles, "Tame Asses", "Learning", and "Too Many Educators", address themselves to the absorbing problem of ourselves as undergraduates, graduates, and teachers. The caption of the first article not only has a flick at current fiction; it recalls a profoundly significant remark of Mandell Creighton's that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN SPERRY FINDS BITE OF GADFLY WHOLESOME | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

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