Word: dumbness
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Another of man's big (and probably dumb) relatives turned up last week. Dr. Robert Broom, 83, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum, cabled to the University of California that he had found the gigantic teeth and massive lower jaw of an apeman far bigger than a modern gorilla. Dug out of a limestone cave at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, the teeth and jaw are definitely human, rather than apelike. Their original owner (who will now be called "Swartkrans Man") must have looked something like the huge primates, Meganthropus and Gigantopithecus, whose teeth were found in Java and China some years...
Perfectionist. In Salt Lake City, the girl who described herself in a want ad as the "proverbial dumb blonde" stenographer, forgot to list her name or phone number...
...Captain Midnight's show contains features common to most of the quasi-credible serials. The hero is surrounded by at least two youthful subordinates, and usually has a humorous character whose harmless stupidity serves as a foil for the heavy witticisms of the others. Villains are either petty and dumb, or sinister and intelligent...
...Colorado, U.S. Senator Ed C. Johnson, whose friends and foes alike call him "the big dumb Swede," flattened former Democratic State Chairman Eugene Cervi in the Democratic primary, carrying every county in the state. In November "Big Ed" will face a tougher threat to his 26-year-old record of always winning Colorado elections. His opponent will be Will Faust Nicholson, 48, who astonished professionals by defeating John C. Vivian, twice governor and one of the state's most formidable Republicans. A tall, gangling man of immense energy and no side, Nicholson had never before run for political office...
...Struck dumb in 1943 by an emotional disorder, Emilio Franco, a 35-year-old coal miner, took a ride on a Coney Island roller coaster, began screaming on the second dip. Back on solid ground, his first coherent words in five years were: "I feel sick...