Word: originated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Heberlein had found what seemed a complete skull, evidently of the same kind of creature introduced to science by the Dubois fragments - pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman. The assumed bones were attached to a spongy stone lump of volcanic origin. The crown was distorted somewhat; the eyesockets bulged abnormally...
...Thus the two great morbid phenomena which attack the organism, inflammation and cancer, appear to us today from the biological point of view distinctly different, one from the other. And perhaps it is because we have mistakenly tried to bring them together that the majority of investigations on the origin of cancer have up to the present time resulted only in failure."-Gustav Roussy of Paris...
Westermarck, in his Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas declares that among the Fiji Islanders the metaphor "as tender as a dead man" is in good use; and that throughout the South Seas human flesh is well known to be a delicious food "far superior to pork...
...feels like to realize that one's life is some four-fifths finished. Later he writes on and on, mostly in the mas (villa) in Provence where he lives with a young woman named Clementina, trying to make plain to himself and the world the nature and origin of his beliefs, metaphysical, theological, political, social, economic, ethical, etc. To make this writing wholly natural, Mr. Wells permits William Clissold to mention encounters with Dean Inge, Dr. Jung, George Bernard Shaw and many another real person whom a fairly eminent scientist could scarcely help meeting. (English reviewers have been choking...
Gypsum-seller Shearer can tell these facts with authority having entered the industry in 1893. He shared in the origin of the U. S. Gypsum Co., perhaps the greatest concern of the industry. He was with the American Cement Plaster Co. for ten years. Then in 1923 he created the Universal Gypsum...