Word: dart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inches deep in the lake gravel floor was found the buried skeleton of an infant. The bones were very immature. Beside the skeleton lay a sharp bone 'dagger.' At this level also were found some very small projectile points, possibly dart heads and knives, scrapers and bone awls. . . . There can be no question that these people preceded by several thousand years the earliest Basket Makers...
With all the science of 5,000 years of civilization at his command, a Connecticut geology professor last week was puzzled by a problem which intrigued ancient Ulysses. Ulysses watched the slim dark fishes dart from the Mediterranean, spread their big fins, and shoot through the air 25 to 30 m.p.h. for as long as 13 seconds, just as Magellan watched them, just as U. S. holiday voyagers on cruises to Havana and Caribbean ports watch them. But do they fly or glide...
...Examples: Peau Doux shaving cream (named after Mr. Walgreen's bulldog Po Do); hardware items such as Dart's O'namel (named after Son-in-Law Justin W. Dart...
...succeed." In referring to the "great and permanent achievement" of the Inter-American Peace Conference, the phrase slipped in again: "The masses of the peoples of all the Americas are convinced that the democratic form of government can be made to succeed." In his peroration that phrase became a dart which he flung again & again against the Supreme Court which he never mentioned by name...
...those who agreed with Professor Dart from the first in placing Australopihecus "in or near the line by which man las arisen" was Dr. Robert Broom, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum in retoria. Last July another blast in another limestone quarry, this time at Sterkfontein, turned up another fossil brain case. The manager, urged by Dr. Broom to keep his eyes peeled for a Taungs ape, landed this to the scientist. Feverish earch disclosed the upper face, the skull base, the right jawbone with three teeth, a detached molar. Last week in Nature appeared a letter from Dr. Broom describing...