Word: neanderthalic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthropologists by now have measured so many heads that Dr. Weidenreich feels the evidence is clear. The facts: 1) the Asiatics (notably the Mongols), who were supposed to have contaminated European dolichocephalism, had long heads, not round heads; 2) the only predominantly long-headed groups in the world today are...
The czar has a small staff of 94. His chief assistants are General Counsel Ed Prichard, onetime law clerk to Justice Frankfurter, physically slimmed down from his baby elephant proportions; ex-WPB planner Bob Nathan, who lends a New Deal tone to the office and an appearance of Neanderthal man...
Slowly, as they came to bloody grips with their exotic enemy, Americans were beginning to realize that to the Japanese mind (an entity utterly alien to them in culture and almost as uncontemporary with them as Neanderthal man), the Emperor Hirohito was Japan. In him was embodied the total enemy...
James Cagney, who in his time had to plant fists or a grapefruit on young ladies' faces and shoes on young ladies' behinds, here develops his tenderest relationships with middle-aged ladies (the Misses George, Main and Hattie McDaniel), and each of them is worth a dozen average...
An item for special interest is the Calaveras skull, discovered by several miners in 1866 in Calaveras County, California (the same district later celebrated in Mark Twain's poem, "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.) The skull was found at a depth of 130 feet in a large Middle Tertiary...