Word: mongoloid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snobbery . . ." Absurd are those who boast of their "pure" racial ancestry; usually they call themselves "Nordics." There is probably not an unmixed Nordic in the world unless he exists in a remote part of Sweden or at the source of a Norwegian fjord, and even there he may have Mongoloid Lappish blood. To scientists a "pure race" is almost an abstraction; anyway, the greatest cultural achievements have been produced by racially mixed peoples, for according to the laws of heredity two and two can often make five. The subject of race sounds much more sensible treated biologically rather than politically...
...Warsaw last week everyone recalled that the Treaty of 1921, now revived and strengthened, was based on a Clemenceau conception of Russia as a politically infectious area around which should be drawn a "sanitary cordon." In Bucharest the immensely tall, Mongoloid statesman who in a struggle of many years weakened this conception and secured mutual diplomatic recognition of each other by the Soviet Union and the Rumanian Kingdom (TIME, June 18, 1934) was M. Nicholas Titulescu. His influence recently waned, he was forced to resign as Foreign Minister. An invalid on the French Riviera, he has claimed that secret agents...
...liberal convictions. John Langdon-Davies (Man and His Universe) sees a confused future in which Japan and Germany fight Russia (but not in the next three years), the U. S. adopts fascism, Britain remains democratic. He sees "one race in the world, with a pale, coffee-coloured skin, mongoloid eyes, rather shorter than the average Englishman of today...
...Ecuador, certain highland and riverdwelling Indian tribes were visited and studies were begun of their languages and racial origins. For two years the museum has participated in a pioneer investigation of the racial elements in eastern Tibet in an attempt to discover the nucleus of the Mongoloid type, and has recently returned the expedition to the important region for two more years of study...
...Epstein's first statue of Christ, a dignified, rather Assyrian figure in bronze, raised howls of "sacrilege." There were just as violent outbursts against his sombre Mongoloid figures on the Underground Railways building (TIME, July 22; Aug. 26, 1929) and his great marble statue of a pregnant Negroid woman known as Genesis (TIME, Feb. 16; April...