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Living Blight. The humanoid he has made and destroyed is George Bingham Lockwood of Swedish Haven, Pa., St. Bartholomew's ('91) and Princeton ('95), a not-quite gentleman whose masterly style of address covers and serves a cold-spirited egotism that blights every living thing within its reach. George Lockwood is first seen as he supervises the building of a manor house for himself outside the town where the murderous skulduggery of Grandfather Moses and the more genteel avarice of Father Abraham have made the Lockwoods one of the richest families in the area. But his chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frustrated Pygmalion | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

Contrary to current newspaper reports, a new identification of a 10,000,000-year-old fossil as "humanoid" does not refute Darwin's theory of evolution, two University faculty members claimed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Darwin Theory Still Intact, Two Anthropologists Affirm | 3/13/1956 | See Source »

Because the "humanoid" Oreopithecus was a contemporary 10,000,000 years ago of proconsul and dryopithecus, these two apes could not have been ancestors of man, as they have often been considered. Although Hurzeler's thesis proves that man had a long history separate from the apes, Howells denied that it refutes Darwinian evolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Darwin Theory Still Intact, Two Anthropologists Affirm | 3/13/1956 | See Source »

Similar stones, probably held in the hand and used as crude axes or hammers, have been found elsewhere in Africa, but they are always accompanied by other kinds of stone implements. Arambourg concluded that the stones he found were made by an extremely primitive "humanoid" whose dim wits had discovered only this one item of stone-working technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...each charged with the welfare and guidance of from twenty to a hundred or more cute rodents. They feed them, pet them, train them, and give them cerebral lesions. Sometimes a rat bites a student, but the average rat is a pretty good egg. They sit up in humanoid poses, coyly cock their wee heads, and squeak in unison in the darkened cages. Millions of 'em. One gets out of his cage once in a while, and there are always several bandit rats (Independents) scampering around the floor and peeking out with one eye from behind the radiators and garbage...

Author: By M. S. K., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/10/1942 | See Source »

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