Word: mans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ignorant they still believe that Noah crowded two of each species of animals into the Ark. . . . here are others who think that Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale. ... I have studied two kinds of whales, and found that it is impossible for either of them to swallow a man whole, and anyway, no man could live inside a whale...
...next year one Owen Crosby Philipps, a 6-foot-7 man of 40, became chairman of the company, which then operated 190,000 tons of shipping. Today Owen Philipps is Lord Kylsant, "Lord of the Seven Seas," a director of over 40 companies and organizations. With a single-handedness of management that amounts almost to secrecy, he has placed a great K on many orders. Some of these Ks have resulted in such deals as the purchase of the White Star Line (from Morgan interests in 1926), the Elder Demster Line (West Africa), the Union Castle Line (South Africa)*. Other...
...Negro from his congregation (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week a more pointed incident of the same sort gave churchmen something more to buzz about. Pastor Adelbert J. Helm of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church announced his resignation. Reason: his church council's refusal of membership to a Negro man, a Negro woman...
...recently dug up, a Peiping despatch reported last week. Actual finder was Pei Wenchung, Chinese archeologist, in the party of Dr. Davidson Black, Canadian paleontologist. The find is undoubtedly the most important archeological discovery of the year. It provides one complete and nine nearly complete skeletons of the "Peking man," pithecanthropus erectus, whose vestiges heretofore have consisted of but a skull top, a leg bone, a few teeth...
Last fortnight the Great Man of Argentina, fiery Dictator-President Hipolito Irigoyen, who is almost fanatically secretive about matters of state, frankly admitted that he has it too. He called in surgeons who decided to operate at once...