Word: bushmen
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...Oldoway is not older than the Piltdown. Java and Peking men, at least he is complete, whereas they are but scraps. If Oldoway is genuinely pleistocene, anthropologists are not much surprised at the persistence of similar people in northeast Africa today. The Bushmen of Australia, the Ainus of Japan and the Dravidians of India have survived from a stock almost as remote...
...before, seasoned "salts" had noted two curious phenomena. In a flat calm, monster oily waves swept up to the beach, boomed hollowly like bushmen's drums. This was the "dead" swell caused by heavy weather no great distance away. The other occurrence, more inexplicable, was the leaping of porpoises,* long considered by seamen a storm augury. Seasoned "salts" had sought shelter...
...Kaoko Veld, on the inaccessible, desert Southwest African coast, Anthropologists C. E. Cadle, Grant H. John and Paul L. Hoefler, financed by Denver business men, found survivors of the Keikum bushmen, "lowest living form of humanity," pigmy creatures, who can communicate among themselves only in tongue-clicks, who have no art left save dances imitating animals, no affairs but hunting food from...
Some of them were old, with peaked brown faces gouged and distorted by the wild turmoil in their heads; some were boys who admired the carpenter because of his sorrowful eyes and comely figure; others peddlers and harlots, cripples scabrous with loathsome diseases, twitching paralytics, and mahogany-faced bushmen who had heard of Vespaciano and had come down from the hills. To them he talked of what had been revealed to him; some he healed, using the same formula with which he had raised his first patient, and it came to the ears of certain authorities that this formula...
...Philippine question. Contrary to your reporter's account as to the speeches by the speakers of Harvard's negative team I am sure that these gentlemen will agree with me that no statement to the effect that the inhabitants of the Islands in 1898 were composed of "bushmen" and "aborigenes" was ever made on the platform that evening. That, however, is the way your reporter has chosen to lend glamour to the subject. If such an argument had really been used by the Harvard team, your thinking readers will undoubtedly take, that example as the reason why the judges were...