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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earliest Humanoids. In Algeria, Paleontologist Camille Arambourg of France's National Museum of Natural History stumbled across dim traces of primeval man. He was digging into a rich deposit of animal bones between the cities of Constantine and Setif when he found some peculiar stones. They were about the size of a man's fist, smooth and rounded on one side and cut into rough facets on the other. At first he thought they were natural accidents, but when he found 300 of them in one small area, he decided that no accident could have brought them together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

University finance officials took a dim view of Brown's spring lark, and promptly provided him with a police escort to Dean Watson's office. Watson, conversant with fiduciary matters, gracefully accepted the silver dollars, explaining: "Refusal to accept legal lender in discharge of a debt would make that debt null and void...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Term Bill Paid... In Silver Dollars | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...Dim and Undecorated...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Coffee, Cookies, Conversation Flow at Widener Library's Newly-Opened Lounge | 5/6/1953 | See Source »

...lounge is virtually the only place inside the Yard where the thesis-writers and the section men preparing for their sections can sit, talk, and eat. The room is dim and undecorated, but its main attraction lies in its congenial atmosphere...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Coffee, Cookies, Conversation Flow at Widener Library's Newly-Opened Lounge | 5/6/1953 | See Source »

Many a steel user had hoped steel would be plentiful in the third quarter, but even those hopes now seemed dim. In an effort to overcome the ammunition shortage (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: New Boost? | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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