Word: nordic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared statement Hooton said, "I am not a fascist. For many years I have spoken and written against the Nazi theory of Nordic race purity and supremacy, and against the Aryan nonsense. I have consistently condemned anti-Semitism and championed the cause of Negro rights. I believe in the desirability of biological improvement of man. I am a democrat...
Death came in Manhattan last fortnight to Columbia's Professor Franz Boas, who more than 30 years ago scientifically demolished "this Nordic nonsense" in The Mind of Primitive Man, a book which has since been called the Magna Charta of self-respect for the so-called lower races...
...Norway has abandoned the pre-war idea of a Nordic bloc (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland), both because such a bloc could not defend itself against "one or more of the Great Powers, and because it might be used by Finland (see below) in a war of revenge against Russia, which would not be in Norway's interest...
Most scientists agree that the Ainus are relics of an early Caucasian or "proto-Nordic" stock, somewhat less evolved than modern Western man. Anthropologist Sternberg suspects that many thousands of years ago the Ainus migrated to Japan via more southerly islands-perhaps the Philippines, the Moluccas, Oceania. His evidence is that the Ainus, unlike any other tribes in northern Asia...
...recent years, however, he has shown an increasing, if spare-time, interest in women. He has enjoyed nude dancing exhibitions. He had a platonic admiration for the sightly young English aristocrat Unity Freeman-Mitford, as the "perfect example of Nordic beauty." The bullet wound with which she returned to England after the outbreak of war (TIME, Jan. 15, 1940) was self-inflicted...