Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takeoff and landing craft. But his greatest fame still stems from the mammoth DO-X flying boat built in 1929. It had twelve engines, a wingspan of 157 ft. and a passenger capacity of 169. Uneconomic though it was, the DO-X could fly the Atlantic and was the ancestor of today's even bigger jumbo jets...
...Taylor once took some friends there to show them his old family world. On the way he described again and again an enormous painting of an ancestor which hung in the main hall. As you came up the main stairs and turned the corner and started around again, you were confronted with the giant relative (he may have been on horseback) which Mr. Taylor had told them about-spell-binding, looming, very...
...Taylor said that when he and his friends arrived at the house-where he had not been for many years-they went up the stairs to see the portrait. When he turned the corner he saw the same painting of the same ancestor in the same place-but it was very small. Instead of huge it was moderate say two feet by three feet instead of five feet by seven feet. All those years the painting had been growing and growing in his memory. He knew that nothing in the house had really changed. The confusion arose in his proud...
...identification of Ramapithecus has even more profound implications to paleontologists. If he is indeed a hominid, Rama would be the direct predecessor of a creature called Australopithecus (southern ape), who, in turn, has long been accepted by scientists as being man's most immediate ancestor among the primates. Unlike the ape: who lived with him in East Africa, the short (just over 4 ft.), heavy-jawed man ape, Australopithecus, stood erect, eating meat as well as fruits and vegetables and was probably the first creature to make and use tools of stone.* Until recently, most paleontologists were certain that...
...result, Mormons today not only baptize, marry, and "seal for time and eternity" living family members to one another, but perform these and other ordinances for dead family members who did not undergo them while they lived. Any male church member may be a stand-in for a male ancestor; any female church member for a female ancestor -and "ancestors" need not even be directly related. But first the ancestors must be found, and each church member is charged with tracing his own antecedents, collecting their names and putting them in temple records...