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...Broom's joy the Sterkfontein skull was that of an adult, with fairly heavy brow ridges and a brain capacity of about 600 cc. He found some resemblances to the Taungs skull and some differences, therefore put his fossil in the same genus with Australopithecus but in a different species. Name: Australopithecus transvaalensis Broom. One molar which he was able to examine closely showed close affinities to Dryopithecus, a well-known genus of extinct apes. It is from a generalized type of Dryopithecus that most anthropologists believe man evolved...
...section. The editors select three or four of the most interesting reports, have them mimeographed by a process which reproduces their exact original form (color of copy paper and typewriter ink, marginal notes, penciled corrections, etc.). To maintain the illusion of inside confidence, the scribbled initials of CC (Colebaugh), B (Editorial Director Thomas Hambly Beck) and WLC (Editor William Ludlow Chenery) appear at the top of each report. The week's selections are stapled together, bound in a bright colored wrapper, sealed with paper tape. In bold letters on the wrapper: "CONFIDENTIAL. . . . For the personal attention...
When a child has been exposed to measles, most highly contagious of all diseases, a doctor should be called at once. He will draw 30 cc. of blood from an adult who has had the disease, preferably one of the child's parents. Injected with this, the child will have a mild case of measles, be henceforth immune. Should this be neglected and a child grow very ill it must have blood from someone who has just recovered from the disease. Last week Washington's Children's Hospital, announcing that ten children in its care faced death...
...tippling, announced in the Yale News that a tosspot would have to down two litres (one-half gal.) of 4% beer every hour to become intoxicated. "General experience shows," amended Pedagog Yandell, "that few persons care to drink two litres in an hour. Under my definition [that 80 cc. of alcohol can be absorbed in the system in one hour], therefore, beer containing 3% or 4% of alcohol by volume is not intoxicating." "A cordial or liqueur," he continued, "such as curagao or benedictine, although it may contain 50% of alcohol, is not intoxicating, for in common practice such beverages...
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