Word: warts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wart hog principle. One wart hog probably looks just dandy to another. See BOOKS, Clothes Make Mankind...
...looking Neanderthalers may have vanished because the wearing of clothes (or animal skins) shifted attention from muscular development to facial beauty. Finding no such refinements in members of their own race, Langner suggests, beauty-conscious Neanderthalers may have mated with other, more comely dawn men. This argument violates the Wart Hog Principle; one Neanderthaler probably looked just dandy to another...
...waters rose, hills became islands crowded with panicky beasts. In the topmost branches of submerging trees, baboons and monkeys clung like lumpy brown fruit. Snakes swam blindly in circles. Guinea fowl, who are inept flyers, paddled around vainly like ineffectual ducks. Civet cats, porcupines, ant bears, rabbits, wart hogs, lizards, boomslangs, and many bushbucks of many types crowded together on bald hilltops. During the day the equatorial sun beat down mercilessly, and birds of prey swooped in for unprecedented feasts. There are few baby monkeys or baboons-most have been eaten, some by their own species. The desperate monkeys gnaw...
...England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Bradford Cannon, Judson G. Randolph and Joseph E. Murray of Boston report that "patients continue to appear with permanent tissue destruction that has resulted from relatively recent radiation treatment of acne, plantar wart, eczema [and] superfluous hair." Examining 165 such cases from their personal files and the records of Massachusetts General Hospital, the doctors starkly document the dangers of unnecessary exposure to irradiation. Items...
...Brothers scene run in reverse, the Beatniks read their poetry, made their pitch for money for a new Beatnik magazine. The Big Table, and then stalked out. After a late night on the town, they made a mystical pilgrimage to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo (which has no wart hog and no laughing bowl), turned up next evening at the Sherman Hotel, read more poetry for a curious crowd of 700 (who paid $1 and up), this session sponsored by Chicago's Shaw Society...