Word: originated
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...volume, popular edition ($3.50) of Admiral of the Ocean Sea has been condensed to 671 pages by cutting out esoteric nautical data, pages of notes, a chapter on the origin of syphilis, other interesting superfluities...
...Timofei (Timotheus). O. J. Frederiksen's "Hughes-ovka" (TIME, Feb. 2) is a tour de force. There are a number of hamlets scattered all over the Kuban country and the North Caucasus with the prefix "Youz" or "Yuz" which is Turco-Tartar for "hundred" and denotes the original post of a Sotnja or a troop of one hundred Cossacks. The language of the Cossacks is full of words of Tartar origin and so are the names of their villages. Any bets...
Here is a book that proves at Ph. D. thesis can be both relevant and palatable to readers who are not recluses of Widener's musty stacks. Peter Viereck, Graduate Fellow in history and assistant to Professor Brinton, has written an interesting and penetrating analysis of the origin of the Nazi Weltanschaugg. Writing under some difficulty because of his father's connection with the Nazis, Viereck is emphatic in his repudiation of the Hitlerian myth without being unfairly vindictive. Drawing his somewhat vague title from the letters of Richard Wagner, he points out clearly its appropriateness and the significance...
Anderson and Prado and two Yale friends of their decided last winter to make the trip "just for the fun of it," and last summer journeyed to Peru, bought a cance, hired a dozen native Indian porters of uncertain origin and disposition, built a number of balsa wood rafts for their provisions, and set out into the interior...
Both had their origin in seeds exposed to X-rays in 1933 by Genetecist Ernest Brown Babcock of the University of California. The X-rays ionized-or "electrified"-the seeds' nuclei, kneading their chromosomes into unusual patterns which produced the two desirably abnormal plants* (as well as a number of other undesirably abnormal freaks, grotesques and runts...