Word: muts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steppat's friend, Anthropologist Hell-mut De Terra, dug up Tepexpan Man last February near Mexico City. When Steppat saw the skull he decided to combine sculpture and science to give it an authentic face. He first considered dissecting corpses and measuring the average thickness of tissue on modern human faces. But he found that the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Wilton M. Krogman had done the job already, establishing the average thickness of face flesh at 15 points...
...vino veritas," he smiled cheerfully as he lurched into the exam. Appearing ninety minutes later, he qualified his statement with "Veritas, may be, but not mut French C. Next time we'll try absinthe...
...Maugham tale could have no better setting than the swank Muthaiga Country Club on a cooling hill outside flat, sunny Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony. Scarcely one hour's drive from the haunts of zebra, giraffe and hartebeest, the Mut-haiga's members have built themselves a sporting retreat as refreshing as those they remember in Old England. From the club terrace, after nightfall, visitors may watch red, green and white fireflies flickering over the Kikuyu grass lawns...