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Word: midlands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family Man. In Midland, Texas, E. G. Foust advertised in the Reporter-Telegram: "Will party or parties that have constantly robbed my mail for the last year please . . . give me your name so I can claim dependents on my income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...days later, he went to Santa Fe and told Anthropologist Fred Wendorf of the Museum of New Mexico about his bones and points. Dr. Wendorf was so enthusiastic that Glasscock gave him the whole collection. Soon Wendorf and a group of learned colleagues were digging a trench at the Midland site. They found a few more bone fragments, and six months later, in a full-dress expedition, found a selection of ice-age animals, most of which were probably extinct before the period of Folsom man. It looked as if both human and animal bones had come from a stratum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Midland Man | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...relic of New World man. Dr. F. J. McClure of the National Institute of Health analyzed both animal and human bones for their fluorine content, which increases with age. He decided that their age is about the same. Since the animals lived in the Pleistocene (glacial) era, "Midland man" must be Pleistocene too. He may have lived anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 years before Folsom man, who therefore remains a ghost, but is no longer the oldest American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Midland Man | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...Midland man, according to Dr. Stewart, had a long, narrow skull and probably looked like a modern Indian. The bones found were probably those of a male who had serious trouble with his teeth. At the time of his death, when the glaciers still covered much of the U.S., one of his teeth was growing up toward his nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Midland Man | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

While the Midland diggers were proceeding with commendable caution, the relics found at Piltdown (and accepted for years without sufficient tests) had a second and more thorough exposing by Brit ish scientists. Not only the human remains but the animal ones, too, were proved to be fakes. The flint implements found with "Piltdown man" had been stained, and the bone implement had been shaped with a steel knife. The perpetrator of the erudite hoax is still unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Midland Man | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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