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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incisors-an extremely apelike feature never before found in a human or nearly human creature. On the whole, the resemblances between Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus led their analysts to regard them as "related to each other in the same way as two different races of present mankind, which may also display certain variations in the degree of their advancement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Men | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Every Dartmouth hope for victory was crushed when the Ulenmen took every first and second place in the next four events, finally assuring a Harvard victory with Bosworth's win in the 150-yard dorsal race in 1:40.7, his best time. The overwhelming display of power was featured by Captain Rick Cutler's 2:17.8 first in the furlong, Davey (Club) Stearns' triumph in the 50, George Dana's upset victory in the dive with 103.53 points, and Jim Curwen's a 55.6 100 free style...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, | Title: Crimson Tankmen Scuttle Big Green Aquatic Forces | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Treasures of gold, jade, and sculpture will be shown in an exhibit, opening today at the Fogg Museum of Art, of the fine arts developed by the civilizations of the Aztees, Mayas, and other native American peoples. The display will continue until February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Treasures Shown In Rare Exhibition of Gold and Jade Today | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Last week Artist Wood's first big canvas in three years, Parson Weems' Fable, went on display at the Associated American Artists' Galleries in Manhattan. Like the usual Wood, its spongy trees are set in a smoothly stylized landscape. But it is also a deft period piece. Mason Locke Weems was an itinerant parson and book agent, pioneer in fictionized biography. Unauthenticated is his pious anecdote of young George Washington and the cherry tree. Artist Wood has the worthy parson drawing back a cherry-red, cherry-edged curtain to show a tiny, Stuart-faced Washington, complete with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Period Piece | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...head of the U. S. Government's Section of Fine Arts, gave his friend and former teacher another tough task: the painting of 20 huge murals for the library of the new Department of Justice Building in Washington. Artist Sterne has been working on them ever since. On display last week in Manhattan's Fine Arts Gallery went the fruit of his four and a half years' toil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Struggle for Justice | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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