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...assumption of the biological homogeneity of any race is a fiction. Every race contains many family strain? which are biologically distinct. . . . The physiological and psychological behavior of the individual depends only in part upon his hereditary characteristics. These differ widely within every population and are strongly overlaid by outer, cultural influences which modify the hereditary traits. . . . Personality cannot be assumed to be determined by the so-called racial groups ... but is a matter that must be determined individually...
...suddenly to eight feet of ice. "We struck a very bad season," said Sergeant Larsen, whose idea of a good season would frighten most men to death. The men blasted huge ice floes and icebergs threatening the uniquely tough hull of the St. Roch, which was copper sheathed and overlaid with ice-resisting Australian ironbark. The St. Roch stayed upright and whole when ice crashing by lifted her straight up out of the water...
Another draw back was the constant presence of chalk dust which permeated the camp in dry weather and overlaid it with "paste" when it was wet. Even towards the end-of the task, the surrounding area was scarred with white chalk marks which gave the workers considerable uneasiness since bombers had a prominent target, but the whiteness was finally plowed under...
...noon last Tuesday Franklin Roosevelt became the first man in U. S. history to serve as President for more than eight years. His head still heavy with a cold, his natural buoyancy overlaid with the gravity of his ever heavier responsibility, he told reporters that the crisis today was greater in some ways than the crisis of 1933. His voice was low and tired...
...crises, revolution and breakdown flared in the first days of peace. Through ten of those 20 years he had been Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce organizer of Mississippi flood relief. His reputation as a humanitarian and an administrator was unequalled. Through the next ten years that reputation had been overlaid by another: he had been the President and ex-President, as soundly defeated as any in the history of the U. S., his personality and his political philosophy buried under a mass of invective that had held him personally responsible for the Great Depression. Last week the cycle closed...