Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born next door to the county fair grounds in Wyoming, Ill., blue-eyed Lee Townsend hung around horses from the time he could walk. Gypsy horse traders who camped near the track every summer taught him how to judge a horse's legs and wind. When he was older, he walked race horses around the ring while the grooms shook up the stalls. On Sundays he read funny papers to an old Negro jockey named Tom Connors, wrote letters for him to his girls. It was several years before young Townsend learned why the old Negro used to line...
...equally famed old man of China, Sinanthropus or Pekin man, is definitely human but paradoxically more primitive in some features than Pithecanthropus. It is not certain that Sinanthropus is older than Pithecanthropus, although the workers in China think so. Both appear to have lived somewhere near the beginning of the Pleistocene. One figure given for their ages is 500,000 years; another is 1,000,000 years. Two conclusions which emerge with reasonable probability from the welter of anthropological confusion are: 1) that early man flowered in a number of different genera and species which became extinct before Homo sapiens...
...certain to be argued about. Dr. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigsvald, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, had found on the banks of the Solo River in Java several teeth, a lower jaw and skull fragments of a humanoid creature which he took to be considerably older than Pithecanthropus, and therefore the oldest human or subhuman relic ever discovered. The lower jaw was "very heavy, with large teeth having resemblance in various characters to several of the most primitive human types." The position of the ear and lower jaw socket were human, the absence of a well-developed...
...generation ago, colleges taught students facts; today they are trying to teach them how to hunt for facts. The students, presumably eager to learn the technique of study, annually pay millions of dollars to American colleges in an effort to raise themselves above the level of the older generation. The road to learning runs through Widener, not the Brattle Square Post Office. The gentlemen in New York would do well to confine themselves to metropolitan areas. Men at Harvard often wish they did not have so much work to do, but they would be the first to see the absurdity...
...vanity of vanities, this business of teaching young men the fruit of older wisdom? Is there no profit of all a man's labor which he taketh under the sun? Hardly. Rather is there great profit, perhaps not to the individual who puts in the effort and makes the sacrifices. The profit accrues to those who follow in his train, who have heard his voice, shared his enthusiasm, and will come in time to pass on to other rising generations his message...