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...human form than to the U-shaped jaws of modern gorillas, orangs, chimpanzees. Sugrivapithecus had a well-developed chin like that of primitive man. Both had close-set, almost human teeth, lacking the formidable canine tusks of the great apes of today. The third genus was more like extinct apes previously discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Entitled the Harvard Film Service, it has already taken over the equipment and all of the films of the Film Foundation. The old Film Foundation is not, however, completely extinct, but is rapidly being dissolved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY FILM FOUNDATION TO BE RUN BY HARVARD | 4/25/1934 | See Source »

...thus inflicted upon those of the second category above is infinitely less valuable to them than a corresponding expenditure of time and labor among the high spots of other fields. I do not think that such a course of education would be a superficial one. "Snap" courses are virtually extinct. And there is no correlation between superficiality per so and a broad knowledge of many things (as opposed to a specialized knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot vs. Lowell | 4/24/1934 | See Source »

...Nonsense!" cried Dr. William King Gregory from across the sea. The hyperoodon or bottle-nosed whale, explained the Curator-in-Chief of Living & Extinct Fishes in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, has an enormous head and a ridiculously short neck. Rapidly Curator Gregory ran through the list of creatures living & extinct which the monster resembled. It had the neck of a sea lion, the head of a sea cow, the body of a long dugong. But the parts did not fit. It could not, he concluded, be what it seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Querqueville Thing | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Lothrop and Roberts made clear that such episodes however were rare during the three years in which the expedition spent in digging up the lost culture of an extinct race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corn Beer Proved Too Much For Natives at Ball Given by Two Harvard Archaeologists in Panama | 2/23/1934 | See Source »

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