Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week he walked out, after modern ballistics experts had testified that bullets expand on being fired, that no bullet ever again fits the barrel of the gun that fired it. After twelve years unjustly in jail, Alexander Ripan had his freedom but few of his teeth. He had pulled them out one by one in his cell, so that the pain would "keep him from going crazy...
...over nomenclature, Dr. Broom has settled on the exciting names Plesianthropus ("Near-Man") and Paranthropus ("Beside-Man") for his finds. Their brain capacities were small, 600 and 440 cc. as against about 1,400 cc. for modern man. But when Dr. Broom had had a good look at their teeth he sent excited reports to the British journal Nature claiming that these old creatures must be assigned a place very close to the point of human divergence from the parent primate stock...
...trifle overenthusiastic. Dr. Broom, however, invited Dr. William King Gregory to come over to South Africa, examine his skulls, express any opinion he liked. Dr. Gregory (of Columbia University, Manhattan's American Museum) is a top-notch paleontologist who knows as much about the evolution of primate teeth as anyone alive. He went, looked. By last week he was back and perfectly willing to add his opinion that the Broom finds are of "exceptional importance...
...teeth of Plesianthropus and Paranthropus, Dr. Gregory found an extraordinary mixture of human and apelike features. The general pattern seemed closely related to the dentition of Dryopithecus, a celebrated extinct ape. Most anthropologists believe man descended from a generalized type of Dryopithecus...
Massachusetts, birthplace of public education in the U. S., has an old school law with teeth in it. Any Massachusetts town that fails properly to support its public schools may be fined an amount twice its biggest annual school expenditure. Recently Woburn's Mayor William E. Kane cut the schools' allowance. Woburn's teachers went unpaid. Thereupon they complained to the State Attorney General. Fortnight ago a Middlesex County grand jury solemnly indicted the City of Woburn, Inc. for school nonsupport. This week the town goes on trial. If it is convicted Woburn taxpayers may be fined...