Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Circle still "played" and still had point. The plot, like the title, is Euclidean, demonstrating how two triangles are equal in all respects. The husband, the wife and the lover of Triangle A are the older generation from whom the young people of Triangle B refuse to profit. The facts that Lady Kitty (Grace George) ran off with Lord Porteous and that they turn up 30 years later to serve as Horrible Examples do not deter Lady Kitty's daughter-in-law (Tallulah Bankhead) from running off with Teddy Luton (John Emery...
...Ales Hrdlicka, 69, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, believes that as a person gets older his skull gets bigger, because of increasing brain size-at least if the person is intellectually active. He got one of his first confirmations of this theory from British Archeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, 80. Last week he reported receiving word of increasing head size from 58 professors, lawyers, ministers, financiers and writers, including three women...
...older and feeble as well, I carry on for the mademoiselle;" they take the hint with all the alacrity of the class...
...thighbones to be the more primitive. He concludes that the Java thighbone has no relation to the Java skull-an opinion advanced by other anthropologists before him. Of the more recent finds on Java's Solo River-fos-sils which the Dutch diggers take to be even older than the first Pithecanthropus -Dr. Weidenreich has nothing to say whatever...
Harvard has always been a target for those opponents of static scholarship, who deplore the tendency of our older Universities to bury themselves in a ceaseless effort to cast new light on the art of past ages, and fail to recognize and foster the growth of contemporary art forms within their own walls. It is encouraging, therefore, to watch the growth within the University of two such groups as the Harvard Film Society and the Cinema Guild, concerned with the advancement of one of these forms...