Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Jacobs, instructor in Physics, and Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, have recently made far-reaching experiments on a new kind of black phosphorous, which they have discovered, and also on different novel types...
...heat. In their special apparatus, white phosphorous was subjected to heat of 392 degrees Fahrenheit, and pressure of 12,000 atmospheres, equal to 190,000 pounds per square inch. The white phosphorous withstands this pressure for about ten minutes. Then suddenly there is a loud explosion; the phosphorous turns black...
...original Pithecanthropus consisted of an apish skull, a very human thighbone, a few "ambiguous" teeth. Sinanthropus was first described to the world by Dr. Davidson Black on the basis of a single tooth. Later five skulls and eleven jawbones came to light at Choukoutien, but no thighbone...
After Dr. Black died, the work at Choukoutien was taken over by bald Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Peiping Union Medical College. For years Dr. Weidenreich has insisted that China's Sinanthropus was more primitive than Java's Pithecanthropus, which he regards as a backward offshoot of the Neanderthal men who emerged later in Europe. But Professor Dubois now considers his Pithecanthropus to be so primitive as not to belong to the human family...
...relaxation he loafs in Hyde Park with his bounding black Afghan coursing hounds, Rib and Rab, one a gift from the King of Afghanistan. Their full names, Ribbentrop and Rabinovich, are Augur's private joke in defiance of Nazi anti-Jewish legislation. Trained to run down gazelles, Rib and Rab now lope with their master on his news hunts all over England, have committed nuisances in the sacred precincts of the Foreign Office itself...