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...current American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Anthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart, of Johannesburg, gives the Transvaal pygmies their biggest boost up the evolutionary ladder. At one time, Dart had called them Australopithecus (southern ape). Now he wishes that he had named them Homunculus (little man). They appear to have been brainy beyond their size and times. Their brainpans (650 cc) were almost as big as those of their bigger (5 ft. 8 in.) contemporaries, the Men of Java...
Wellesley tuition is finally going the way of all college tuitions up. A $200 boost, slated to come into effect next fall, will boost the fee to $1600. The announcement of the long-delayed increase came from President Mildred McAfee Horton...
Ticket sales indicate a crowd of 30,000 to 35,000. However, the Cross always draws a subway alumni delegation in good weather, and this may boost gate receipts...
...Herbert Hoover. When a smoke-filled room nominated Harding for the job that summer, the College got right in step, giving the Great Gamaliel the nod over Gov. Cox by 270 votes. But the Democratic campaign at College featured a major address by Cox in the Union and a boost from President Eliot. These two factors now made the Democrats much stronger at Harvard than at other Eastern schools...
Both Big Steel and Allegheny-Ludlum said that the bulk of their production would not be affected. But the boost in sheet and strip, which are used mainly in autos, refrigerators, washing machines and other such items, would certainly be painful to users. One bodymaker estimated that the cost of an auto made from steel bought from Great Lakes (which supplies about one-sixth of the industry's flat-rolled steel) would go up about...