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...that of a modern ape which had been treated with a chemical to make it appear a "fossil." When found in a Piltdown, England, gravel pit in 1911, the shape of the jaw led scientists to call it at least 100,000 and possibly 600,000 years old. The cranium itself is a genuine fossil, but the scientists now say it is only 50,000 years...
Although the shape of my own cranium is regrettably average and inconspicuous, I object strongly to your repeated derogatory use of the term, egghead...
Something snapped in Eaton's cranium. But he did not jump out of the window. His soul jumped out instead. He leaned forward. Utterance of some sort there must be. Had Eaton satire only lent him utterance, he might have said "when you call him, that, smile." Had Eaton ire only lent him utterance, he was. But neither instinct came alone; instead ire and satire met in one grand incandescence; and voicing this potent compound, as only Eaton can, he rasped forth the cry of Kent in one long lingering lung--"OH RINEHART...
Sentimental Loss. Paleontologists felt little more than a sentimental sense of loss. Before Pearl Harbor, plaster casts had been made of the ancient bones and shipped to a number of Western museums. The cast of a female Peking cranium, fondly known as Suzanne, was built up into a composite skull. Then, early last spring, Dr. Pei Wen-chung, one of the men who found remnants of Peking man in a limestone cave at Choukoutien, sounded off in the Chinese Communist newspaper, Ta Kung Pao. The Japanese had indeed captured the fossils, he said: they had been shipped to Tokyo, later...
...that historians have shown us up to now are really copies of Emperor Charles the Fifth. When Cortés was alive, he never allowed a picture of himself to be made."*Rivera said he based his new Cortés on scientific examination of the Spaniard's cranium and leg bones, discovered in 1947 in a floor crypt of the Mexico City's ancient Hospital of Jesus. "I have painted Cortés this way to give an exact idea of him and destroy the legend...