Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Martin R. Miller's letter (TIME, July 10) concerning the technique of trapping banana fish, reminds me of the fun I used to have as a child, going out with my Uncle Josh to catch whifflepoofs. This, too, requires a great deal of piscatory skill...
...Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced ah-leesh hurd-leech-ka), famed fossil man of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Moscow last week. A young Soviet archeologist named A. P. Okladnikoff announced the discovery of a fossilized Neanderthal skeleton on a high cliff in "Middle Asia." The bones were those of a child eight or nine years...
...exact location was not disclosed, but central Asia is thousands of miles farther east than any Neanderthal remains hitherto discovered. Since Soviet science is more notable for enthusiasm than for scholarly caution, some skeptics might have wondered whether the skeleton was really a Neanderthal child or just the luckless progeny of some more recent Mongol wanderer. Dr. Hrdlicka, however, pronounced it a genuine Neanderthal specimen, left no doubt that was one of the most precious childr in anthropology's bare nursery. Dr. Hrdlicka knows...
...Heard an exciting debate between University of Iowa's George D. Stoddard and Stanford's Lewis Terman. Question: Is a child's I. Q. determined more by heredity or by environment? Dr. Stoddard reported that he had raised the I. Q.s of children of dull parents to that of children of college professors by placing them in good homes (TIME, Nov. 7). Said Dr. Terman: "If [these claims] can be substantiated, we have here the most important scientific discovery in the last thousand years. . . " Either the educational programs provided by other investigators are less stimulating than those...
...barnstorming aviator and Hollywood cameraman, Miller tells as many tall ones as Trader Horn, makes some of them sound convincing. The first white child raised in Netherlands New Guinea, he began his jungle jaunts at five, and while still an adolescent became a blood brother of the Marind-Anim tribe. He returned to his native islands to make a travel film, having married the expedition's backer in Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought...