Word: myth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examination of the fossil discovered last autumn at Trinil, Java (TIME, Oct. 11), and reported everywhere as another skull of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman, showed the relic to be an elephant's knee cap. The "Southwestern Colorado Man," lately deduced from a set of Eocene teeth, was a myth, the teeth having proved to be those of an antique horse.?Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Smithsonian Institution...
...this debate been laid further south anything from a race riot down might well have taken place, such, is the strength of tradition, no matter how illogical or untested it may be Oxford, by its meeting with Lincoln, has broken down one more of the barriers erected around the myth about the necessary inferiority of the negro mind...
...sides swung to and fro, to and fro not unlike the movement of dromedaries--but that is another story. Three secton men, marching toward the house of a Cambridge lady on Christmas--was it Christmas--Eve...Surely that has nothing to link it with fable or fancy or even myth...
Because personal, inspiration is almost impossible to isolate or to define it is very easy to pass it over with a sneer about "another myth", or some similar remark. Nevertheless it remains true that long after the date of the invention of gunpowder in the Occident, or the meaning of a certain Shakespearean passage, or even the scores of Harvard-Yale football games are forgotten, the graduate will still carry with him memory of some inspiring teacher with whom he has come in contact and whose influence, exerted perhaps indirectly, has been a vital factor in his life. Professor Copeland...
...cannot see how Mr. Prebles can say what he did say about Her Son's Wife, Jesus: A Myth? and A Manifest Destiny. I am sure everyone will agree that it was his, and not the fault of THE CREAM. It is a novel idea and I sincerely hope it continues...