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...nuisance value among anthropologists because of his irritating lectures, was in fine, irritating fettle. He shocked his colleagues by declaring the whole concept of race to be "utterly erroneous and meaningless." He declared that early naturalists like Linnaeus and Buffon first tried to squeeze mankind into races according to complexion and other superficial traits, but anthropologists must now open their minds to the later discovery of genetic laws: Then the many differences among human groups will appear only as mutations within a single species. "Race" might perhaps have been redefined, he conceded, but Nazis and others have abused the term...
...this month bought out his German partner. Some U. S. exporters are naturally reluctant to break old and profitable trade relationships so long as the U. S., not being at war, has no official blacklist. Some have long made a point of neither knowing nor caring about the political complexion of their Mexican distributors, any more than they care about that of their domestic customers or employes. But most have been thoroughly cooperative when the U. S. Government has made informal representations. Apart from patriotism, they have a reason of self-interest to seek new agents below the border: Many...
...seats in the second balcony is being checked, and the ornate walls are going to be repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few few above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knock-out punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes...
...triumph, they subjected a Harvard team to one of its most humiliating defeats in recent history. For a while it looked as if the Crimson were going to chalk up its first win of the season, but in five short minutes in the third period the entire complexion of the encounter changed, and when B. U. left the ice they had a well deserved win to their credit...
...Complexion of the Houses had changed little: it was leathery, middleaged, pocked with politics. But the new Congress did have an infusion of new blood. Setup...