Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago on the compromise scale]. Again, the typical British attitude toward Pithecanthropus erectus is perhaps a full recognition of human status and anatomical integrity, with some imperialistic suspicion that he belongs to an inferior species, while the Piltdown lady is at least a complete female and, apelike jaw and all, a possible progenitor of Homo sapiens. . . . However, it seems to me that the most outstanding characteristic of British anthropology is the essentially sporting atti tude taken by scientists toward the discovery and acceptance of new finds, which may be contrasted with the morbid simian suspicions which obsess the Germans...
...week he also dismissed the Committee, whose Chairman Howard S. Cullman at once demanded to know why his group had been dismissed "in so abrupt a manner without so much as an explanation." All year there was talk that Director Weaver would resign, but he thrust out his square jaw, snapped that he would "not be forced out" until he had accomplished something...
...Sears prevents that by making his patients chew like cows and sheep. He makes the surface of false bicuspids and molars practically flat, sets the bicuspids and first molars a little higher in their cases than the other false teeth, and a trifle offset. This compels the lower jaw to move straight up and down against the upper jaw, instead of in the natural scissors movement. The extra height of the middle teeth prevents Dr. Sears's patients from shutting their jaws completely. Only way to do that and to bite into food is to thrust out the lower...
...visible tremor of his jaw or mouth...
This pair go through their routine of scoops, whiskey, and socks on the jaw with refreshing relish. Loretta Young, as a young heiress who announces her engagement to the reporter in order to turn the heat of publicity on him for a change, is excellent. Slim Summerville supplies added amusement in his role of a country judge, the doors of whose cell block are constantly falling from their hinges...