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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then he looks as if he had been butchered. Whenever possible, do it through the auxiliary artery. [The colleague's armpit was indicated.] Yes, siree. Put yourself in his place. . . . When my experiments are completed, I'll have seven different kinds of cosmetic powders, one for every type of skin. That will make a corpse look realistic. That's the thing to do, put yourself in . . ." There was coffee to drink during the bloodletting and then there was rollicking song. Setting-up exercises imparted verve for more talk of autopsies. Not all the proceedings became known...
...development has been rapid and recent compared to the millions of years it has taken other animals to advance. He lived mostly in forests, and fossils of forest life are always few. Human fossils have been found only in river beds (from drowning-infrequent), and in caves. Seven early types have been discovered: ¶Pithecanthropus erectus* A skull cap, thigh bone and some teeth were found in Java. They are probably not less than 500,000 years old. Study indicates that the creature walked partially erect, had a brain volume about half way between man and the gorilla. The skull...
...proceeded to buy out the manufacturing end of the business, and acquired five men to help him run it. During the dark days of 1920, these five stuck to Wardell and his vacuum cleaners. Today, the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., Detroit, is the largest manufacturing concern of its type in the world, with 250,000 shares of stock outstanding and no bonds or preferred ahead of it. The whole business has been built out of its extraordinary earnings. Five years ago, Wardell's five henchmen invested among them a meagre sum in the business. On May 5 last...
...state of Washington and the cities of Omaha and Chicago, last week, decrees were issued by the local district attorneys banning from the mails certain publications variously defined as "salacious," "indecent," "pornographic." These decrees, the first conscipuous discrimination against a type of literature that has long fouled the public newsstands and encumbered the mails, were issued without organized cooperation. They are an indication of a resentment that has long been gathering, undirected and unexpressed, in widely separated parts...
What then, is the Harvard type? Needless to say, the formula is complex, but perhaps the many elements do combine to form something tangible. There are, I might say, two types with a common characteristic. There is the club member who belongs to some socially prominent Boston, New York, or possibly Chicago family, and who continues to be damnably social for four years. And there is the high-school graduate who majors in Latin and spends most of his time in a quiet nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society...