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Smithsonian Institution's able Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka pronounces himself Ah-leesh Hurd-leech-ka...
...third soul, called KA, went to the tomb with the man's body but lived on there. It drank of the funeral beer, ate the funeral food, and lived...
...latest result of U. S. cinema invasion of the Orient,* the Lloyd George of the East rushed back to Tokyo, decreed from his Ministry of Education that on school premises Japanese children must hereafter "refer to their parents with proper respect" as O-to-san (Honorable Father) and O-ka-san (Honorable Mother...
...parents could have answered the Theban Sphinx, for like Dr. Aleš Hrdlička, famed Bohemian-born doctor of medicine and physical anthropologist with the U. S. National Museum, they have rarely seen children walking like little bears. In 1927 and 1928 Dr. Hrdlička wrote three learned papers on the subject of walking-on-all-fours. Only 41 cases could he locate, so he decided it was a rarity, gave it a Greekish name, tetrapodisis...
Last week appeared Dr. Savas T. Nittis. 34, a member of the department of internal medicine at the University of Michigan medical school, to confute Dr. Hrdlička on the rarity of tetrapodisis. Dr. Nittis, graduate of the University of Athens, is a Greek born on the British-owned island of Cyprus. According to Dr. Nittis, children there always amble about on all fours before they walk upright. Dr. Nittis never saw them go otherwise before he migrated to the U. S. He inquired of other Greeks, of Near Easterners, of Balkanese. Their children did likewise. The apparent rarity...