Word: dart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that tumbled to the foot of the cliff were fossil fragments from a cave which the blast had exposed. The manager gathered the fossil-bearing chunks together, handed them to a Johannesburg geologist named Young who was stopping by on business. Dr. Young took them to Dr. Raymond Arthur Dart, professor of anatomy at the University of Johannesburg. Laboriously scraping away the rocky mineral, Professor Dart uncovered a small, fragmentary skull with the face almost intact. The scientist quickly realized that he had in his hands one of the most important evolutionary finds since the discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus...
Much of the uncertainty over the status of Australopithecus was due to his extreme youth. He was not more than six years old when he died. The jaw contained 20 milk teeth, four permanent teeth. Dr. Dart placed him at the base of the human evolutionary stem. But Sir Arthur Keith, while admitting certain manlike features, put him on the same branch with gorillas and chimpanzees, though on a separate twig. After several years the lower jaw was detached from the upper, and the crowns of the milk teeth were seen to be almost wholly human in form. Dr. William...
Finally, there's the band, something over one hundred, officials, seven counting the two guys who carry the ten-yard markers and the fellow who sticks the dart in the ground, about 60 former Human who played on the football team who are granted sideline seats, a bunch of kids, to sell programs of whom there are about 36, the coaches, and finally 37 Harvard players...
...accused Mr. Angell of talking teachers' oaths while Rome burned down. And Rome is burning. It is the Rome of Mr. Curley's authority over this Commonwealth. A year ago, when his seat of power was secure, one cannot imagine the self-confident governor injured by a professor's dart. Here is another shriek of retreat to show that Mr. Curley knows what November third has in store...
...next woman who tries to dart through Adolf Hitler's special guards and kiss Der Führer, as powerful Mrs. Carla George de Vries of Norwalk, Calif, did fortnight ago, may very well be shot down in her tracks, according to last week's Berlin dispatches. For their failure to halt the first woman who has publicly kissed Herr Hitler on the mouth since he became Chancellor three years ago, several of the Dictator's hulking Schutzstaffel guards were dismissed in disgrace last week, several more were demoted in rank and the number...