Word: jaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom shivered. Witness Boston's jaw dropped. So did Prosecutor Dewey's. He and Attorney Stryker strode to the bench where sat stern-faced Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Attorney Stryker argued that the prosecutor's remark had nothing to do with the trial at hand, was deliberately prejudicial to his client. Prosecutor Dewey insisted that the question was proper and justified. Justice Pecora, with face sterner than ever, recessed court for the week-end to decide...
...Four years ago he violated medical taboo, trusted no one more than himself to operate on his wife. When his young son died, with steady hand Professor Babcock performed the autopsy. Last week Dental Survey described a striking operation which Dr. Babcock originated for pushing forward a receding lower jaw, giving a patient a firmer looking profile than he was born with...
...theories, however, all contemporary anthropologists agreed that early man differs from anthropoid apes in posture, brain case and teeth. Plaster casts of skull interiors usually reveal faint lines made by convolutions of the brain. These are more developed in man than in ape. When chewing, the ape moves his jaw straight up and down. Man rotates his jaw. Hence there are decided differences between ape and man in the size and shape of their teeth, particularly the molars. Prehistoric human skeletons which anthropologists have pieced together demonstrate these differences in one respect or another. While possessing many apelike features, these...
Pithecanthropus erectus, of low brow, apelike jaw and human teeth, who browsed on the island of Java during the early Pleistocene period (Ice Age), 500,000 to 1,000,000 years ago. Dr. Eugene Du Bois, Dutch scientist wb discovered the remains in 1892, changed his mind about Pithecanthropus' genus several times, finally concluded that he was an ape. Britain's Sir Arthur Keith, however, world's greatest authority on fossil man, considers Pithecanthropus the earliest known form...
...been found, but certain it is that it carried itself like an ape, because its head was hafted to its neck like that of a gorilla or chimpanzee. The horrifying feature of Dr. Broom's fossil was a set of human teeth, neatly arranged in the ape jaw. How could a creature lower in the evolutionary scale than man possess human features? asked the anthropologists. Are the human teeth in the ape's jaw an evolutionary sidetrack? Or was this now extinct ape a closer relative of man than the chimpanzee and gorilla...