Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they do. He is a vertebrate with the same number of limbs as other vertebrates. Bone for bone, his skeleton is like that of the typical mammal-and even reptile-types. His nervous system is similar-centring in a nerve canal leading up the spinal column to the brain. He has hair and warm blood like other animals. He produces young in the same way. He suffers from the same poisons as do the great apes, and from diseases similar to theirs. He is even preyed upon by similar lice and fleas. He differs in degree, to be sure, from...
...river beds (from drowning-infrequent), and in caves. Seven early types have been discovered: ¶Pithecanthropus erectus* A skull cap, thigh bone and some teeth were found in Java. They are probably not less than 500,000 years old. Study indicates that the creature walked partially erect, had a brain volume about half way between man and the gorilla. The skull recently found at Taungs, South Africa, is reported as of this general type. ¶Homo heidelbergensis. Two jaws found near Heidelberg are probably about 400,000 years old. They are apelike, with manlike teeth. ¶Eoanthropus dawsoni; Fragments...
...plan of adherence to specific requirements than has the vociferous liberal's plea for selection. In the first place, the degree must mean something. We don't want candidates at graduation presented with a medal for "spending" four years in college. Nor do we want them lop-sided brain specimens...
...victorious British fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in November, 1914, where he sank the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Nürnberg which had previously defeated a British squadron at Coronel, off the coast of Chile; in Camberley, Surrey, England, of inflammation of the brain...
...SHOW-OFF?The middle-class American with the empty brain and the restless vocal chords who makes "Good evening" into a political oration...