Word: originated
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Based on the researches and arguments of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka. Bohemian-born curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, the theory that North American Indians are of Asiatic origin has very nearly reached the status of a verdict by circumstantial evidence. Ethnological consensus is that the Mongol forbears of Amerindians crossed from Asia to Alaska some 15,000 years ago, crawled slowly down across Canada. From that time the story of their movement to the Eastern U. S. where white invaders found them has been fragmentary and obscure...
...perfume and emotion." As might be anticipated, their alliance is not lasting. At the end of the play he is headed for Iowa City, plotting to become a nuisance to the government. She, unmarried still, is planning an accouchement. She hopes her child will forget the informality of its origin when it sees the spectacle of "burning cities . . . marching armies ... a funeral procession towards a red horizon." Of the four plays that opened in Manhattan last week, Playwright Lawson (Processional, Success Story) wrote two. He received congratulations only on his industry. The opening of The Pure in Heart amounted...
Good news for Jews came last week from the front lines of their boycott war against Nazi Germany. Noting "consumer resistance to goods of German origin," Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. announced that in the past six months their German orders had declined 98%. Hence, the biggest department store in the U. S. was closing its Berlin purchasing office, moving to Prague. Few days later Bernard F. Gimbel announced: "There now being practically no demand for German merchandise Gimbel Brothers, Inc. have discontinued buying German goods." Other big Manhattan department stores which have closed their Berlin offices...
...stream of young talent which is absorbed through the lower appointive positions. In America no such entrance to politics is at present available and can be supplied only by a group of Public Service Colleges in the larger universities, colleges which would supplant the local party club as the origin of American statesmen...
...Planetesimal Theory of Earth Origin," Professor Mather, Geological Lecture Hall...