Word: fossils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supervise the job the Duke had called in aging Dr. Barnum Brown, a world-famed paleontologist and curator of fossil reptiles at the American Museum of Natural History, whose avocation is oil geology...
Died. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, 80, British geologist, co-discoverer with Charles Dawson of the Piltdown skull, long believed England's oldest, near-human fossil (circa 100,000 B.C.); in Haywards Heath, Sussex...
Then he found a still larger jaw, the biggest ever discovered, which was unmistakably human. It was apparently the most primitive truly human fossil ever discovered. Koenigswald named it Meganthropus palaeojavanicus (Big Man of Ancient Java). Meganthropus seemed to have been about the size of a big male gorilla...
Koenigswald's crowning find dwarfed even Meganthropus. Prowling in South China apothecaries' shops, whose drawers are often full of fossils, he found three astounding fossil teeth. They were six times as big as a modern man's molars, twice as big as a gorilla's. Koenigswald thought they were an ape's. But Weidenreich is sure, from the pattern of their "biting surfaces, that they are definitely human. He has named this man monster, who was certainly much larger than a gorilla, Gigantanthropus...
Arthritis is one of the oldest diseases on earth-fossil remains show that even dinosaurs suffered from it 200,000,000 years ago. Arthritis has always bedeviled the human race. The great thermal baths built by the Romans are monuments to the aching bones of the middle-aged Romans who had it. Today, in the U.S., the 6,850,000 people with swollen arthritic joints far outnumber the sufferers from any other chronic disease (including heart disease, hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure). Arthritis causes more days lost from work than industrial accidents, or any disease except nervous...