Word: mongoloid
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...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...
...Jenks's Minnesota maid will be a cynosure at the Atlantic City gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Trained eyes will understand why the anthropologists and paleontologists, who for weeks have been studying her skull with microscope and calipers, classify her as a Mongoloid type, more Eskimo than Indian. Professor Jenks puts her age at 17½ years. From a nick on the inner side of her shoulder blade he deduces the "murder." It may have been caused by a spear or arrow striking through her heart, through her right lung. She may have been...
...short, thick-set body; straight hair-boarded a boat at Seattle last week. He was Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 63, curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, bound for Kodiak Island off the coast of Alaska. There he will grub for the ancient debris which indicates that Mongoloid peoples millenia ago crept across Bering Strait,* down the western coast of the Americas and thence across the mountains and the rest of the Western hemisphere. Four times Dr. Hrdlicka has been North since 1926, always with parties of diggers. This time, he told newsgatherers, "I am going alone, because...