Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter from Africa last week interested the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Manhattan. Wrote Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, digger in East Africa: "It is almost beyond question that the skeleton of a human being found by Professor Hans Reck in 1913 is the oldest known authentic skeleton of Homo sapiens...
Professor Reck found the skeleton in a district of Tanganyika Territory (then German East Africa) called Oldoway (pronounced Oldo-wah-ee) or "place of fossils." It is the complete fossilized skeleton of a grown man lying on his right side, with his knees drawn up to his chin and his arms folded. Professor Reck found it high up the side of a gorge where he had found the fossilized bones of extinct animals...
...conservative evening paper like the New York Sun, failed, sold it to the Daily News but kept the Associated Press franchise by bringing out 500 copies daily of a sheetlet called the Commercial Chronicle. (Last week he had forgotten its name.) Around the A. P. membership and a skeleton staff, Publisher Thomason built his tabloid Daily Times. So friendly were he and the Tribune that he made his paper an exact copy of the Tribune's lusty Manhattan tabloid brother, the Daily News...
...decision was made at the meeting to keep the Central Square Office of the Bureau open during April and May, and also to keep a skeleton organization under the supervision of the present members at work during the summer months. This is an innovation in the work of the Bureau and should considerably increase the assistance it is able to render to the needy people of Cambridge. The exact plan of the summer organization is still tentative, but will be confirmed and announced in the near future...
Immediately after the conclusion of the Assembly a skeleton group of organizers will meet to commence the preliminaries for the 1933 Model League session. While it is too early as yet to predict with any degree of certainty where this session will be held, Harvard is being prominently suggested by many students as a very desirable locality. The existence of a strong nucleus of experienced men at the University next year will undoubtedly be an important factors in influencing the final choice...