Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bathroom is in bad shape, too - the window's blown out and most of the tiles are broken, but it's usable. If we get gas, which we hope to get sometime this winter, there will be hot water...
...long stream of carpenters, electricians and movers had worked long hours to put the magnificent house, once the residence of the Duke of Sutherland, into tiptop shape. Carpets were laid, a bar installed, and a brand-new international round table built-a plywood ring, 14 feet in diameter, set on brown varnished legs. Separate chambers were provided for each of the foreign ministers. Mr. Molotov had the most elegant: a paneled room with towering mirrors and gilt scrollwork which was once the Duchess of Sutherland's boudoir...
...Weidenreich traces the head-shape fallacy, on which the Nazis based their theory of the superiority of the longheaded Nordic type, to "a tragic anthropological error committed in good faith" 100 years ago by a Swedish anatomist named Anders Retzius. Retzius hit on the idea of identifying peoples or races by a head-measurement index based on the ratio between length (from the forehead to the back of the head) and breadth. Ever since, anthropologists have classified all men as "dolichocephalics" (long-headed), "brachycephalics" (broad-headed) and "mesocephalics" (in between...
...spinal column and of the skull base. The trend toward a broader and shorter skull, says Dr. Weidenreich, has not reduced modern man's brain; it remains about the same size as that of the Neanderthal man. According to the latest theory, brainpower depends not on shape or size but on configuration of the brain surface and on the development of the cerebral cortex. Says Weidenreich: "The attempt to equip dolichocephalics as such with certain characteristic mental qualities ... is nothing but a revival of ... phrenology...
Another head-shape fallacy was exploded last week by the University of Illinois dental school. Doctors have long supposed that an individual's head shape changes considerably as he grows up. But Illinois X-ray studies showed that while an infant's head bones and bumps grow bigger, their relative proportions remain virtually unchanged throughout life. Thus, from an X-ray photograph of a newborn infant's head, it is possible to sketch approximately how he will look as an adult...