Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singular explanation of the pride in antiques so rife, in the eyes of Yale, at Harvard, comes with the notice that Yale tears down old buildings to build new whereas Harvard merely has fires in the old ones and then repairs them. It is less expensive to cater to ancestor-worship in whatever its form than to be creative. It is also safer. If you brush your teeth criss-cross instead of up and down because you like it better, you should go to Yale. If you do so because grandpa did, better go to Harvard...
...reader; he saw them but his eyes continued their hesitating journey from left to right over the pages that were like a thin maze. A fashionable lady bowed at his elbow; Voltaire took snuff and made a face behind him. At last James Boswell Talbot gathered his ancestor's writings and put them back into the ebony...
...British press received with little comment and no protest the dogmatic assertion of Sir Arthur Keith, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in session last fortnight at Leeds, that "Darwin was right," that men and apes had a common ancestor (TIME, Sept...
...newspaper readers, proposed to review the Darwinian batteries; to report on their condition and any changes made in them since Darwin's time; and to affirm, once for all, the official stand of British science on Darwin's proposition that humanity and apedom had a common ancestor...
...Arthur confined himself to nothing more than a bare outline of Darwin's achievement, contenting himself with the assertion that the human species has been evolved from a "humble primate animal" and that man and ape have a common ancestor. The theory itself was not otherwise touched upon...