Word: mix
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That's even older than the celebrated Lucy, and comes from a time when humans still had many apelike characteristics. Best of all, this skeleton is almost complete; it even comes with a skull. There is no need to mix and match different specimens to guess what the entire creature looked like (Lucy, for example, was only 40% complete). Once the skeleton is fully excavated in a year or so, experts should be able to pin down the relative sizes of different body parts and see just which of the creature's features were apelike and which were human...
According to popular myth, high retail prices in Harvard Square are a pitfall of Harvard life, but like most myths, it's a mix of fact and fiction...
...actors, moreover, contribute performances that continually build tension as the play hurries towards its frenetic climax. As Suzy Hendrix, Julie L. Rattey '01 pulls off an exceedingly difficult role--she is a striking mix of inner strength and physical vulnerability. Though helpless once the contest turns physical, Suzy's always one step ahead of her stalkers (and Rattey's pensive pauses and subtle gesturing give us the sense that her character is always thinking, always plotting). As Gloria, Suzy's teenage helper, Kate Johnsen '01 is appropriately petulant (though she is unfortunately saddled with a number of hackneyed, static lines...
...Cake Mix 1940s, by General Mills and Pillsbury...
Walker had invented her own "hair growing" product, she claimed, after "a big black man appeared to me [in a dream] and told me what to mix up for my hair." Some of the remedy was grown in Africa, she would recount, "but I sent for it, mixed it up, put it on my scalp, and in a few weeks my hair was coming in faster than it had even fallen...