Word: solomons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vicar Apostolic of the Northern Solomon Islanders, Bishop Thomas Wade, arrived in San Francisco last week with an explanation why cannibals are cannibals. Said...
...Deprive a native Solomon Islander of vitamins and proteins demanded by nature and he will eat his neighbor. Give him natural food and he will become ashamed of his former flesh eating. Cannibalism was originally due to lack of meat in the islands. Then it became surrounded by ceremonials. Weaker tribes who had been driven from lowlands and available animal life by stronger tribes took to cannibalism for the sake of a balanced diet, including fats and oils. I believe that the South Sea Islands had no indigenous animal life, except possibly the pig, and it was probably brought...
...face. They would rather eat bully beef than human flesh because there is more salt in it. I don't think they would eat white men at all, as they are afraid of a new diet. Cannibals usually are weaklings. There will be no cannibalism among the Solomon Islands in ten years, when civilization contacts the back country...
...happier over the signing of the law than Dr. Alexander Solomon Wiener, young Brooklyn pathologist who lobbied for its passage, who, with the promptings of his lawyer-father, has become the country's best-known court expert on blood groups, and who last week produced a timely compilation of what reliable scientists know about the whole subject...
...Rhodes's right-hand men and closest friends. Says Hammond: "He was the greatest personality I have ever known." On an exploring trip into Rhodesia with Rhodes and Dr. Jameson, Hammond investigated some ruins at Zimbabwe, came to the conclusion that he had found King Solomon's mines. In the Rand, world's No. i gold field, Hammond introduced deep-level mining, started one (the Robinson Deep) that is still being profitably worked at 8,500 ft.-the greatest depth on record...