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Word: jawings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a generation, a shambling creature with a human skull and an apelike jaw was known to schoolchildren, Sunday-supplement readers and serious anthropologists as "the first Englishman." He was "Piltdown man," and he was supposed to have lived anywhere from 750,000 to 950,000 years ago. Last week three British scientists, armed with modern chemistry, demolished Piltdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: End As a Man | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...first Englishman" was first heard from in 1911 when Charles Dawson, lawyer and amateur anthropologist, unearthed skull fragments and part of a jaw in a gravel pit near Piltdown in Sussex. The skull was obviously human, but the apeishness of the jaw made some authorities suspicious. Others accepted both as genuine. In honor of Finder Dawson they labeled Piltdown man Eoanthropus (dawn man) dawsoni. To some anthropologists, who often jump to conclusions as quickly as a monkey jumps on a banana, the contrast between the skull and the jaw all but "proved" him to be a link connecting apes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: End As a Man | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

Oakley explained that the basis of calling the skull a fraud was the discovery that the ape-like "Piltdown" jaw is actually that of a modern ape which had been treated with a chemical to make it appear a "fossil." When found in a Piltdown, England, gravel pit in 1911, the shape of the jaw led scientists to call it at least 100,000 and possibly 600,000 years old. The cranium itself is a genuine fossil, but the scientists now say it is only 50,000 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alas, Poor Piltdown! I Knew Him... | 11/24/1953 | See Source »

Following in the steps of such acknowledged masters as Britain's Geoffrey Gorer and France's Jean-Paul Sartre, several still little-known but promising rookies have recently reported that U.S. children are developing prognathy ("The lower jaw is thrust forward as a result of lying for hours on the floor in front of the TV screen, chin in hand"); that, when the air conditioning breaks down anywhere, "New York reverts to terror in the face of a hostile and uncontrollable nature"; and that "the female secondary sex characteristic is the dominant theme in current American culture." Against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: These Strange Americans | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Spot of Advice. Churchill was not advocating appeasement of the Russians. He was quick to remind the world that "the Soviet armies in Europe, even without their satellites, are four times as strong as all the Western allies put together." Jaw thrust forward, blue eyes flashing fire, the Old Man denounced "Socialist politicians who hope to win popularity both by carping and sneering at the U.S." He warned the Tories, too, that "it would be madness to make our heavily burdened island take up an attitude which, if not hostile, was, at any rate, unsympathetic both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: An Ample Feast | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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