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...first-class saddle horses to equip a single cavalry division (4,000 horses). Previously Western horses had deteriorated through large purchases by the British for the Boer War and because of an admixture of homesteaders' draught horses with the sturdier stock taken West by pioneers. All Western horses contain some of the blood of the wild herds descended from the "Twelve Immortals," the dozen horses taken into Mexico by Cortes. Descendants of the "Twelve Immortals" roamed north into Texas and California, from lack of food grew small, rangy, fierce and wild...
...Julie, now married to a German, von Norwitz, off fighting in the War, soon disturbs his contemplations. She is restive and Alison soon becomes so. There is more philosophy in her glowing eyes then in all this books, more in her sudden kiss than he supposed all life could contain...
...ubiquitous depression may be teaching the young men a new wisdom, or it may be simply that styles are changing, but the two critical notes of the issue contain a pronounced dissent from the worship of yesterday's literary deities. The author of the current editorial has made the immense discov- ery that "violence can be a vogue and, like all vogues, presently become outworn." Therefore, O'Neill, Jeffers, and Faulkner are each awarded a great big question mark. Regardless of what posterity will ultimately decide to be the permanent value of these authors, I cannot help feeling that such...
...anthropologist's interest in items human is protean. Neatly arranged cases, cupboards and drawers at the Smithsonian Institution contain 1.500 human skeletal remains which Dr. Hrdlicka has collected. In filing cabinets are his records of American whites and Negroes, of Egyptians and Slavs (he is a Bohemian), of peoples in Peru, Mexico, Asia, of little understood midgets. A small cabinet, labeled tetrapodisis and still only meagrely filled, contains the case histories of children who ambled, like little animals, on hands and feet before they walked upright (TIME, Jan. 6 & Jan. 27, 1930). The "walking-on-all-fours" records form...
Petitions for additional nominees, which must contain 35 signatures, should reach the chairman of the nomination committee not later than 4 o'clock on Thursday of this week...