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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fossil Punts. In Britain, where amateur archeologists rummage for everything from Piltdown Man to Saxon arrowheads, two Yorkshire brothers struck pay mud in the River Humber. Since boyhood, Ted and William Wright had scoured the country near Hull, looking for likely sites. Best bet, they decided, was a mud bank in the Humber; it ought to be full of interesting stuff washed down the river since ancient days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Some of the "marginal tribes" have faded into legend; some have taken a bumpy ride on the tailboard of civilization, and a few still follow their ancient way of life. Ethnologists cherish them all as significant "fossil cultures." The ancestors of modern, civilized man, they believe, also passed through comparable stages many thousands of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Childhood of Man | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Social customs among the fossil cultures have been unchanged by the progress of the rest of the world. Example: the ceremonies among some Chaco tribes when a girl reaches puberty. She cowers in a hut with a blanket over her head while long lines of older women parade around her, striking the ground with sticks, rattling bunches of deer hooves. Medicine men beat drums. Young men, masked like evil spirits, howl on the outskirts, try to break through the picket line. The coming-out party lasts a month. Then the pickets disperse; the girl throws off the blanket, takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Childhood of Man | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Arthritis is the modern name for rheumatism and "the misery," one of the oldest diseases on earth (even dinosaurs had it, as their fossil remains show). Doctors recognize two chief types: 1) rheumatoid, an inflammation which usually attacks people between the ages of 20 and 40; and 2) osteoarthritis, a degenerative ailment of old age. Symptoms: painful swellings of the joints, often starting in the fingers or knees, and migrating from joint to joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Joint Study | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...playboy sons who became directors of the company were no chips off the old block. John B. Jr.'s biggest contribution to the company was an impulsive gesture which brought the company fame. On a trip to Arizona in 1901, he tossed his well-worn Stetson into Fossil Creek near the great Natural Bridge. Twenty years later the hat had turned into a 40-lb. hunk of limestone, still shaped in the identifiable form of a Stetson. Manhattan's Museum of Natural History added the stone to its permanent collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Under the Hat | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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