Word: molars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dental alloys of gold and indium stand up well under molar pressure and the tarnishing action of acids...
Excited as a hungry terrier was Bryan Patterson when erosion revealed a deposit of old bones in a pasture near London Mills, 111. Out of the glacial blue clay came parts of a hind leg, pelvis, forefoot, vertebrae, a molar tooth. Back in Chicago's Field Museum, where he is Assistant Curator of Paleontology, Patterson pieced the fragments together. Last week he announced that he had one of the finest fossil ground sloths discovered in the U. S. since 1796. In that year the huge, extinct beast was first studied and named Megalonyx by a great U. S. paleontologist...
...Clark Gable, 39, to find out what was wrong with a broad but aching Gable shoulder. "Hurry up," groused he at photographers, "I'm not feeling so well." Next day dental surgeons found what they claimed was the root of Actor Gable's ills, yanked an infected molar...
Aboard the Southern Cross, yacht of Swedish Tycoon Axel L. Wenner-Gren, the Governor of the Bahamas and his lady this week set sail from Nassau to Miami. Reason: Her Grace needed an operation to relieve an apical infection of a non-vital molar...
...scientists found some differences in the Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus skull shapes, but also some exact resemblances, even in minor structural details. Peking Man's molar and premolar teeth are more primitive, but Java Man has a wide gap between his canines and incisors-an extremely apelike feature never before found in a human or nearly human creature. On the whole, the resemblances between Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus led their analysts to regard them as "related to each other in the same way as two different races of present mankind, which may also display certain variations in the degree of their...