Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who agreed with Professor Dart from the first in placing Australopihecus "in or near the line by which man las arisen" was Dr. Robert Broom, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum in retoria. Last July another blast in another limestone quarry, this time at Sterkfontein, turned up another fossil brain case. The manager, urged by Dr. Broom to keep his eyes peeled for a Taungs ape, landed this to the scientist. Feverish earch disclosed the upper face, the skull base, the right jawbone with three teeth, a detached molar. Last week in Nature appeared a letter from Dr. Broom describing...
Striking aid came to Senator Harrison from Senator Bilbo's one-time law partner, Stuart C. ("Sweep Clean") Broom, with a speech which brought down the house wherever he delivered it. Boomed Lawyer Broom: ''I am a professor in the Bilbo school of politics; I can read his shorthand notes; I know his tactics. I am a Bilbo man and have always supported him, and when he is a candidate for re-election in 1940 and Conner is his opponent-and he will be as sure as there is a hound dog in Georgia- I will...
...Chicago, Walter Brown, held for larceny, picked up a broom, swept busily past the guards, down the hall, out the door of the county jail to freedom...
...Sixth Ave., New York City, 35 years ago and was discarded by magicians because of its crudeness and as explained by TIME any person not totally blind could easily see through the trick. For a "consideration" I will gladly duplicate the trick in my own parlor using a broom instead of a stick and without flowing robes, wild eyes etc. and before any committee TIME wishes to choose. WILLIAM H. MOSELEY...
...them to a skilled preparator named Albert Thomson in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural Histoiy. Mr. Thomson was confronted with the toughest extraction job of his life. Cautiously he attacked the sandstone with needle-like awls, sharpened under a microscope that magnified them to the size of broom handles. After long months of picking and scratching, the dismembered skeleton was finally free of its matrix and the preparator sent it back to Dr. Jepsen...