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When biologists try to figure out where a creature originated, they look for the place where its primitive forms, living or extinct, are found in the greatest variety. Therefore, the remains that have been found in Africa suggest to Dr. Dart that Africa was the place where humans gradually evolved, with many false starts, from some prehuman stock...
...Headmaster. With Rahab, Walsingham, Richelieu, Fouche, Stieber and Mata Hari, Allen Welsh Dulles has little in common except his job. A tall, husky (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) man who wears rimless spectacles and conservative clothes. Allen Dulles is an unmistakable product of that nearly extinct patrician society which dominated New York and New England before World War I. With his booming laugh, bouncy enthusiasm, and love of competitive sports, Dulles is uncannily reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt. He has the young-old look of a college student made up as Daddy Long Legs in the class play...
Isabel won the eternal devotion of her people on a sunny Sunday afternoon, May 13, 1888, when with a gold pen set with diamonds and emeralds she signed the shortest law in Brazil's history. It read: "As of this date, slavery in Brazil is declared extinct." It was a great triumph for the plump, fair-haired young princess, then acting as regent for her absent father, Emperor Dom Pedro II. In ten days, after she had reformed the cabinet, she pushed the emancipation bill through the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Commoners and courtiers joined in celebration...
Penelope's papa was a Church of England clergyman "of a type now nearly extinct, low church, bigoted, and opposed to every kind of enjoyment." Ecclesiastes was his Bible; when Penelope spoke to a stranger, her father rebuked her in his own didactic paraphrases, saying: "If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly." He refused her a piano ("Wine and music will rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both") and kept her from the village fair ("Who so taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned...
...bones of the creature were found, so Arambourg cannot say what type he belonged to. Certainly he lived a long time ago. The animal bones associated with the fist-axes were of long extinct animals, including the stylohipparion (a primitive horse) and the libytherium (a short-necked giraffe). Arambourg thinks that these animals are about one million years...