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...Sapient Destroyers-Mild-mannered. quietly humorous, far removed from the cave man is Paleontologist William King Gregory (Columbia, American Museum of Natural History) whose discourse on mankind's past and future was a high spot. Excerpts...
...DEPRESSION into PRESS ON; from others came vague assurances that business is upping, but in its final meeting the convention adopted a significant report recommending drastic economies in club operation, euphemistically referring to "this period of men tal and spiritual unrest." ROBERT L. HUTCHISON Joplin, Mo. Dirt-Doubers Sirs: Sapient Bermudans who foretell the hurricane season in Bermuda by observing spiders weaving their skeins on low bushes instead of up in tree tops, as told in TIME, Sept. 21, have nothing on Negroes living on either bank of the muddy Roanoke River in North Carolina...
...silk spiders of Bermuda have been weaving their skeins on low bushes and shrubs this summer instead of up in the trees and telephone poles. Any sapient Bermudian knows what that means: a hurricane season...
Like President Hoover, Finland's President Relander appointed no hot-blooded youngster to head his Prohibition commission but sapient, 75-year-old Edvard Björkenheim, counselor to the Ministry of Agriculture. Ready at hand for Wickersham Björkenheim were Wet statistics released by the Government last week. During 1930 Finland, with a population of 3,600,000, convicted 11,147 men and 2,390 women of violating the Prohibition law. Police confiscated 1,052,486 litres of illegal spirits...
Efforts to explain the world economic depression led sapient Professor Corrado Gini of the University of Rome last week to divide homo sapiens, like Gaul, into three parts. This was important because the French semi-official newsorgan Le Temps proceeded next day to take the division most seriously. It is simple, logical, best of all allows everyone else to shift the whole blame for nearly everything upon L'Oncle...