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...Hulburt's theory, within an egg-shaped ion cloud of its own making. This cloud is the out-spraying of the earth's spherical atmosphere which hugs the earth like a skin about 100 miles thick. Neutral atoms and molecules at the outer rim of the atmosphere dart further away from the earth into space. Sunlight ionizes them, creating an extremely tenuous cloud of ions and electrons. These radiate a faint light of their own, comparable to the light of the sun's corona. Zodiacal light and Gegenschein are the earth's coronal light visible from...
Coach Stubbs' men have played through a better than average season and last Saturday captured their first objective game of the year against Dart mouth. All these games were without Giddens, however, but tonight with the diminutive Canadian ace back on the ice the Crimson contingent will get its first opportunity to see whether it actually will be able to play Larry Noble's Yale outfit on a par basis...
...South African evidence is the fossilized skull of a six-year-old beast. Professor Raymond Arthur Dart of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, found the skull five years ago at Taungs, Bechuanaland, near the west border of the Transvaal. He calls it Australopithecus (Southern...
...common origin with apes. The Southern boy-ape looked more like a chimpanzee than like any human race known today. But he carried his head and body higher. His milk teeth, brain and temple bones are closer to the human type than the ape. So Professor Dart boldly reasons that he belonged to a family intermediate between the higher apes and man, was in a way cousin to both. Professor Dart is now looking for an Australopithecus hind foot. If it is more human-like than apelike he will be reasonably certain that the Taung-creature was a late stage...
Stretched eastward from Manhattan in the shape of a candle-flame, lies Long Island. Here, in a country made for pleasure, live socially-minded persons who dart to their diversions along concealed and crooked trails, inserted through the woods or strewn upon the shore. Their houses, lying between hills or built above bright beaches, are walled with forests and reticent behind curling drives. Who builds them and makes them beautiful...