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...item for special interest is the Calaveras skull, discovered by several miners in 1866 in Calaveras County, California (the same district later celebrated in Mark Twain's poem, "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.) The skull was found at a depth of 130 feet in a large Middle Tertiary gravel, and, if one could trust its position, that would indicate a great age and would prove the presence in America of a race of prehistoric men older even than the Neanderthal man. A great furor raged around this question, even invading the realm of poetry as is shown...
...they had run things, the Nazis would never have got to Paris. But in view of all that goes before, their pathos in the war and the Nazi invasion is less pathetic than grotesque, less like the end of Man's Fate than the end of A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go. When the cat and her kittens come tumbling in and pounce on the rat, the mouse and the little frog-gie, it is still just gamins and spinach. For Author Paul is guilty of one of the oldest of demagogic fallacies: he confuses democracy with...
...electrical charge on a single muscle cell has been precisely measured for the first time, announced Dr. Ralph Gerard of the University of Chicago last week. Using needle-fine microelectrodes on 3/1,000-inch cells from frog muscles, he detected charges of 6/100ths of a volt. This surprisingly large potential is lost when the muscle moves. Thus, said Gerard, stimulation of a muscle consists in momentarily short-circuiting its electrical balance...
...repaid through the mediation of Mr. Higgenbotham, frog & snake catcher, who happened to owe Mrs. Rawlings six dollars. One day he drove up with a trussed-up sow, asked Mrs. Rawlings if she wanted to buy a pig. "Now what I got figgered out is this. That sow there is worth six dollars. . . . I owe you six dollars. If Mr. Martin takes that sow, you've paid him and I've paid you. Now how about...
Ulen thinks that most people will oppose the innovation just as they did the butterfly arm movement. "I'd like the fishtail, though, because it would be easier to teach," he asserted. "It doesn't require the timing that the frog kick does...