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...monkey. The family tree of primates charted by Sir Arthur Keith shows New World monkeys branching off a common stem in the Eocene Age (2,000,000 years ago), Old World monkeys diverging later in the same period. In the Oligocene Age (1,200,000 years ago), the great upright primates reached a fork. One branch ends up with the gorillas, orangs and chimpanzees of today. The other continues steadily toward Homo sapiens...
...Manhattan laboratory of Drs. Irving Sherwood Wright and Dean Moffat who reported the latest of several studies on cigarets and capillary constriction, men and women sat bolt upright with their hands stretched over a table high as their chests. Pointed at the transparent flesh around the finger nails was a special capillary microscope. Intermittently for three-hour tests, subjects held the pose and puffed at cigarets, suspended on slender reeds before their lips. Some of the cigarets were standard brands; others were de-nicotinized; still others were mentholated. Then, too, there were rolls of shredded paper containing no tobacco...
...winches broke. In August the salvage crew was ready to quit. Spitfire Curtis jumped up & down, barked, screamed and swore until they went back to work. In October an anchor chain whacked Frank Curtis across the legs, almost cut them off. Two hours later, with two men holding him upright, he was back on deck directing operations...
...thousand skewers as banquet followed boisterous banquet. Champagne-loving Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha, high-strung and quick as a panther, was doing his best to honor the majestic Persian Dictator who styles himself the King of Kings and whose age of some 60 years is concealed by his upright military bearing, betrayed by a certain slowness of speech and gesture...
...Soviet officialdom than at any time in the past 15 years. Shrewd Comrade Litvinoff realized that this time it was necessary for him to do more than embarrass his disarmament colleagues for the benefit of the Moscow Press. He presented, therefore, two concrete proposals to jerk the delegates upright in their seats...