Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these five novels chronicle mostly the Vikings on land with their women and priests, their passions and prickly consciences. Rich in detail of 14th century manners and morals, the books are in the best tradition of magnificent historical novel, but in their universality they reflect the sum of human drama...
...methods is in the investigation of irregularities in the gravitational field of the earth by means of the torsion balance. Masses of density different from the surrounding rock, tend to deflect the direction of gravity and the change, though almost infinitesimal, from the standpoint of ordinary human experience, is capable of measurement by observing the amount of rotation of a light beam appropriately weighted and suspended on a thin platinum wire. Ore bodies themselves are rarely large enough to cause detectable variations in gravity, but large features such as heavier rock in cores of folds, dome-shaped masses of salt...
...means of some 90 models of Eskimo teeth, Dr. Adelbert Fernald, Curator of the Harvard Dental School Museum, has proved that eating a strictly meat diet is the ideal way in which to keep the human mouth in a healthy condition, and that it is due to the fact that civilized people do not eat enough meat that they as a rule have decayed teeth...
Commander Donald B. MacMillan, the noted Arctic explorer, obtained about 90 impressions of the teeth of the Eskimos of Smith Sound, "the meat eaters," who live the farthest north of any human beings. He did this at the request of Dr. Fernald, who desired the models for the Dental School Museum. The impressions were made on one of MacMillan's most recent Artic expeditions. From the impressions, models have been constructed. Commander MacMillan said that "the Smith Sound Eskimos average about four ounces of vegetable matter each year per capita...
...systematically displayed. The staff propose to devote one large room to a general synoptic room covering the whole world. In addition, they will install at the entrance to each room, synoptic cases which will display in more detail the development of cultures in the section of the human race to which that room is devoted. The generosity of a few friends has already enabled us to start on the process of reorganization...