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...wallet of every cautious German bulged week ago with an automobile license, a police registration card, a Nazi party card and, for good measure, a passport. Last week Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick stuffed in one more. Hereafter each German must also carry a racial card (sippenblatt: sippe, kin; and blatt, card). After an official investigation of his ancestry, a pure "Aryan" German will be certified as such, an impure one clearly labeled...
...kin to the proud Boston Coolidges or to the late Calvin Coolidge...
...mansion. For the past ten years he has also been a Republican. After last week's primary the man who seemed slated for one of the most meager U. S. gubernatorial jobs was Public Service Commissioner H. Styles Bridges of Concord. His Democratic opponent: John L. Sullivan (no kin) of Manchester...
...comment on the controversy as to whether Southerners ever use ''you-all" in the singular,* Professor Greet said that the expression is usually collective, but sometimes resembles the French vous, as when a Negro servitor might say to a single person, with no sense of intimacy: "Kin ah call a cab fo' y'awl?" Southern-born, Professor Greet speaks with a faint accent, by no means resembles an "elocution" teacher, says: "We want to make Americans speak like Americans, not like a cross between Walter Hampden and an Englishman...
After two years of research at Yale, Dr. Solly Zuckerman, Oxford zoologist, last week reported that the blood serum proteins of Old World monkeys are closer kin to the corresponding human proteins than to those of New World monkeys. Thus was Sir Arthur's tree upheld in outline, but the discovery seemed to indicate that the Old World monkey branch should be moved up the main stem, farther from the New World monkey divergence, closer to the human fork...