Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night last week Dr. Edgar Wallace Knight, Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina, faced an audience of Southern teachers and students at New York's Columbia University Summer School. It was to be a semi-intellectual merrymaking, but Dr. Knight said...
...Southerners work too little and brag too much. . . . We have become intoxicated with our own prosperity and progress. . . . The South is not yet an educationally advanced section of the U. S. ... In public libraries we are at the bottom of the list. The average per capita expenditure for public library service for the country is 33?. In the Southern States it ranges downward from 18? in Florida ... to 2? in Mississippi...
...Buyer Lavarre still holds options on other southern newspapers amounting...
...South African evidence is the fossilized skull of a six-year-old beast. Professor Raymond Arthur Dart of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, found the skull five years ago at Taungs, Bechuanaland, near the west border of the Transvaal. He calls it Australopithecus (Southern...
...Taungs skull resembles the skulls of both young boys and young chimpanzees. That is not surprising because baby humans, chimpanzees and gorillas resemble each other. That resemblance furnishes one of the presumptions of man's common origin with apes. The Southern boy-ape looked more like a chimpanzee than like any human race known today. But he carried his head and body higher. His milk teeth, brain and temple bones are closer to the human type than the ape. So Professor Dart boldly reasons that he belonged to a family intermediate between the higher apes...