Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eohippus), their lives would be less exciting but laymen would understand them better. Professor Dubois first ascribed Pithecanthroptis to the Pleistocene or Glacial Age, then shifted him to the preceding period, the Pliocene. Although extremely apelike, he was admitted to the human family by the skin of his primitive teeth, but Professor Dubois has changed his mind again, now pigeonholes the ancient creature as an ape related to the gibbons. Professor Dubois considers that all the original bones belonged to the same species; other authorities disagree with...
...eclipses, earthquakes, avalanches, cloudbursts. Where such phenomena occur, the Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha. But for the incarnation there are many claimants. These are weeded to three, whose names are placed in a golden vase from which, in the presence of an assembly of priests...
Thereafter, while regents ruled Tibet, the Panchen Lama, a paunchy little god with false teeth, sought unceasingly to return to the land of his birth. Last week word reached China that, instead, His Serenity had gone to his Nirvana, aged 54. The thoroughly kindly, intelligent pontiff had died at the Tibetan border town of Jyekundo where, for days, his priestly retinue had twirled prayer wheels, chanted the mystic syllables Om Mani Padme...
...follows the grim fight of determined men against howling Arctic weather, flies with them via Rudolf Island to the Pole itself, recording the weird tracery of the shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard...
...white, blue-cream, smoke, red tabby, and tortoise-shell cats, a Siamese named Marvella and a fancy rat named Minnie were chosen to appear together in an amicable picture. When Cat Marvella reached out a tentative paw of friendship. Rat Minnie flew into a huff, sank her sharp teeth into the paw. Marvella whimpered, withdrew her foot...