Word: browed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broom's joy the Sterkfontein skull was that of an adult, with fairly heavy brow ridges and a brain capacity of about 600 cc. He found some resemblances to the Taungs skull and some differences, therefore put his fossil in the same genus with Australopithecus but in a different species. Name: Australopithecus transvaalensis Broom. One molar which he was able to examine closely showed close affinities to Dryopithecus, a well-known genus of extinct apes. It is from a generalized type of Dryopithecus that most anthropologists believe man evolved...
...President wrinkled his brow. Who, he asked, was Dr. Wirt? Again the great Roosevelt laugh boomed out above the newshawks' giggles...
...Victory for our Government," said Indalecio Prieto, mopping his brow and fanning himself, "will mean that the large estates will have to be collectivized, almost on a Communist basis, and credit will have to be found for the small farmer. Although fundamental changes will be necessary, Spain is not ready or well enough developed economically for pure Communism. We shall nationalize the banks, industries, mines, railroads and other transports, but we need the wealth provided by the small trader." This from Socialist No. 1 might be considered the Government's minimum pro gram, since Socialist...
...three desks sat Jenkintown's (Pa.) Edward V. Sherry, Chicago's local prodigies Norman Saksvig and Edith Kohn. At another sat Cortez W. Peters, a 220-lb. Washington, D. C. Negro, wearing a brown silk polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year...
...Geneva hotel suite one morning last week young British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, his brow worry-puckered, argued and pleaded with dusky members of Haile Selassie's entourage, trying to persuade them to advise His Majesty not to inconvenience the Great Powers by personally arising in the League Assembly to air Ethiopia's wrongs. ''Tell your Emperor that no head of a State has ever addressed the League-it would be unprecedented!" cried young Tony Eden with his British reverence for precedent. "The Emperor really must not appear. It would compromise his imperial dignity...