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This impostor is described as a Latin-American, eighteen years of age, about five feet four inches tall, good looking, with one tooth missing on the right side of his jaw. He gives his address as Hamilton Hall, Cambridge...
...Museum of Natural History, also a paleontologist, was to talk next for 15 minutes on his hypothesis that the organs of an animal have their own struggle for existence. That is why animals of the same general family have different characteristics. Example: the shovel tusked mastodon developed its lower jaw to scoop food from swamps. The African elephant developed its upper tusks to uproot trees for their tender top leaves. This Osborn theory opposes the Darwinian theory that new types develop from accidental variations of which only those survive which are best adapted to their environment; the Lamarckian theory that...
...land his dangerous, awkward swings, performing his specialty of chin-blocking. For two rounds Canzoneri handed out punishment. At the start of the third round Canzoneri whammed a left to the Berg chin-block, hit him under the heart with a right, then straightened his right up to the jaw. Berg stood up at the count of seven and then collapsed. When his seconds brought him to, he wept. Canzoneri, one of those fighters who demonstrate elaborate affection for a beaten opponent, also wept as he shook Berg's hand - from happiness. He was still lightweight champion...
...Lombardi, 6 ft. 3 in. high and 220 Ib. heavy with a huge nose and hands big enough to enwrap a baseball as though it were a walnut. The New York Yankees found a monster larger than Lombardi-Jim Weaver, a 6 ft. 7 in. pitcher with a woodchuck jaw. Easily the highest pitcher in the big leagues, Weaver has a good fast ball, fair control...
When that unnamed Gallery listener socked Terrible Tory Churchill one on the jaw (so to say), I actually cheered...