Word: straitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Were American Indians Polynesians? Ales Hrdlicka (Smithsonian anthropologist now in Alaska) is certain that Mongolian-like peoples traveled across Bering Strait and eventually became Amerinds. Helen H. Roberts (of Yale's Institute of Human Relations) last week argued that Amerinds were originally Polynesians transported by canoe from the Pacific Islands. The Polynesian and American aborigines seem to have made cultural contacts long before European ships joined the two primitive races. Mis Roberts bases her arguments on 60 remarkable similarities between Polynesian and Amerind customs. Both groups make flutes of human bones, blow them through their noses, have conches for trumpets...
...boat at Seattle last week. He was Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 63, curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, bound for Kodiak Island off the coast of Alaska. There he will grub for the ancient debris which indicates that Mongoloid peoples millenia ago crept across Bering Strait,* down the western coast of the Americas and thence across the mountains and the rest of the Western hemisphere. Four times Dr. Hrdlicka has been North since 1926, always with parties of diggers. This time, he told newsgatherers, "I am going alone, because the economy program cut our [Smithsonian] funds. However...
Experiences at sea had freed old Captain Archer of local New England trammels, just as experiences on shore had left his wife tradition-bound. Between these two influences their only child, Mattie. grew up, strait-laced and windy-willed at the same time. After her mother's death Mattie is free to do as she pleases, but nothing happens until the Ladybird and its blue-eyed Captain Isadore Davis put in to Bowfort. At the sight of free-&-easy Isadore, Mattie's blood goes wild. Out to sea she sails with him, without letting her father know...
...responsibility for unemployment resulting from technological changes rests on industry but that it is shared by that industrial civilization as a whole which "invites or rather coerces the individual to surrender his independence and to become dependent for our sakes." At Williamstown last summer, he expressed opposition to the "strait-jacket of world economic planning" and faith in a system based primarily on individual initiative. But that this is not identical with an outworn laissez-faire theory is indicated by the following: "Our own capitalistic system obviously needs modification...There are large areas of new relations, of old relations expanded...
...strait-jacket a highly intelligent school student is to commit a crime against education: to allow his liberty of study, (not to be confused with freedom from work), is to placate the gods of Wisdom and Learning. It is not hard to see which of the two courses of action Yale should pursue. --Yale Daily News