Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Antiquity of Man. No sane anthropologist asserts that man descended from an ape or monkey. The family tree of primates charted by Sir Arthur Keith shows New World monkeys branching off a common stem in the Eocene Age (2,000,000 years ago), Old World monkeys diverging later in the same period. In the Oligocene Age (1,200,000 years ago), the great upright primates reached a fork. One branch ends up with the gorillas, orangs and chimpanzees of today. The other continues steadily toward Homo sapiens...
...Oxford zoologist, last week reported that the blood serum proteins of Old World monkeys are closer kin to the corresponding human proteins than to those of New World monkeys. Thus was Sir Arthur's tree upheld in outline, but the discovery seemed to indicate that the Old World monkey branch should be moved up the main stem, farther from the New World monkey divergence, closer to the human fork...
Julius Rosenwald 2nd, grandson of Sears, Roebuck's late board chairman, reported to Sears' Seattle branch, ready to begin work as a clerk. Asked about the business, he protested: "Say, I'm just a kid that's starting from the bottom. I'm going to start learning something about it tomorrow. I'd start today but I've got hay fever...
Editor Van Doren has tried to include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back...
...Public Health ordered them out last week because of sanitary conditions. Strikers said they would not come back, until Secretary Carranza and Stewardess Uranga had been dismissed. Before they would dismiss secretary and stewardess, replied the Board of Trustees, they would put the Mexico City Association and its Chihuahua branch into voluntary bankruptcy, send the Y. M. C. A. out of Mexico for good. Up from 3,400 Christian young men who had paid their dues to the end of the year went an outraged howl...