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...first edition of Vol. 1 contains many passages which were later suppressed, among these being the widely-publicized statement that the original type of man was blond and that other races were the results of combinations with subhuman races, a thesis promptly refuted by many noted anthropologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Early Battle | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...horn), and a variegated assortment of porcupines, camels, cranes, storks, milgai, kangaroos, monkeys, baboons, dromedaries, tapirs, leopards, hippopotamuses, hyenas, bears, gnus, parrots & macaws, deer, pumas, an audad, a bok and a gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars (albino Negroes), Cliko the Bushman (who reads philosophy when not exhibiting himself), giants, giantesses, midgets, snake charmers, contortionists, fat ladies, a Whirling Dervish, the Rubberneck Man. five Ubangi women with wooden discs in their lips (circumference: 14 in.) and The Vegetable Man whose aberration is paring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Jane Parker still seems to be more pleased than frightened. Her abductor does not disillusion her. Although he can only converse with monkeys and is, aside from his ability as a gymnast, convincingly subhuman, Tarzan shows a surprising grasp of the niceties of romantic love. He is only rough once, when he seizes Jane Parker's handkerchief, tears it in half and gives a disagreeable grunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...ground where Oldoway lay buried was pleistocene, judged to be a million years old. Was this modern-looking man buried in ancient soil fairly recently, or did he live & die in the pleistocene period of glaciers and subhuman creatures? Professor Reck believed the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oldest Man? | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...shot through the chest, dies as he is being carried in. With more humor than All Quiet on the Western Front, Her Privates We is curiously like it in tone: in its quiet admiration of some men's courage and cheerfulness, its despair and hatred of a subhuman way of life that uses men to stop bullets, feed rats. Her Privates We points no moral, needs to point none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Western Front Englished | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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