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...other kinds of animals: 1) Morphology (anatomy). Man is composed of protoplasm like all other plants and animals. He breathes as all higher animals do and eats much as they do. He is a vertebrate with the same number of limbs as other vertebrates. Bone for bone, his skeleton is like that of the typical mammal-and even reptile-types. His nervous system is similar-centring in a nerve canal leading up the spinal column to the brain. He has hair and warm blood like other animals. He produces young in the same way. He suffers from the same poisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whence Man? | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...sight of the skeleton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRING RECALLS ANCIENT MIDNIGHT RAIDS ON CHAPEL MEDICAL MUSEUM | 4/7/1925 | See Source »

Much feeling was manifested at a recent meeting of Art Students (young and old) while discussing Harvard's mysterious dip into subterranean, dark cavities in its effort to clandestinely, yet conveniently, reach Rome and accept a (gefill't a fish) gilt-edge catechism direct from the skeleton hand of that animated stalking, rattling boss of the profitable Catacombs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 12/11/1924 | See Source »

Married Pete Robinson ("Living Skeleton"), aged 45, weight 58 lb., to Bunny Smith, ("Fat Lady"), aged 23, weight 467 lb.; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 8, 1924 | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

Lady Huntworth's Experiment" made its first Boston appearance in over 30 years on Monday night. The resurrection is unfortunate, the gray skeleton should have been allowed to rest undisturbed. The Copley Players have shown many times before, as they showed Monday night, that they are capable of something better than inane and frothy come dies...

Author: By J. L. C. jr., | Title: LIGHT COMEDY IS THEME AT COPLEY | 11/5/1924 | See Source »

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