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...Ainu (popularly known as the hairy Ainu), some 16,000 of them, inhabit northern islands of Japan. A few live on the half-Soviet island of Sakhalin. How they got there is one of anthropology's darkest mysteries. Last week the Smithsonian Institution reported to the U.S. the findings of Russian Anthropologist Lev Yakolevich Sternberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stone Age Relics | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...divided into three parts, of which the Yard is the oldest and most fraught with ivy and tradition. Formerly the domain of the Freshman, the Yard will be occupied this summer by a large naval contingent and an equally numerous group of special summer school students. 1946 will inhabit the Houses, formerly reserved only for upperclassmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TOPOGRAPHY BAFFLES 1946 | 6/25/1942 | See Source »

Their chagrin today is not due so much to the fact that they made a mistake, I suspect, but rather to the knowledge that the vast majority of non-intellectuals who inhabit the hinterland west of New York City-and whom our "intellectuals" despised for their Rotarianism, their devotion to business, their taste in art and entertainment, their patriotism, their family life, et al.-these same provincials saw clearly ten to 15 years ago that Communism and Fascism were cut from the same pattern and that as governments both resembled Capone's rule of gangsterdom. Such ignorance and lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...built 103 minutes of photoplay around a simple character study of the S.S. Glencairn, a slow tramp steamer bound from the West Indies to Britain with a cargo of munitions. During most of the voyage, slight, sensitive Photographer Gregg Toland's camera is turned on the seamen who inhabit the forecastle-a burly, brawling Irishman (Thomas Mitchell); a big, boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unpulled Punches | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...this 200, about half live at home. Fraternities and rat-Houses claim in the vicinity of from 60 to 65 each year, while approximately 30 inhabit the college dormitories and 25 to 30 are found at miscellaneous addresses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juniors, Seniors Given Increased Certainty of Admission to Houses, Latest Statistics Reveal | 5/8/1940 | See Source »

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