Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Asiatic skull fossils led to a revolutionary theory that modern man was descended from a giant rather than a pygmy predecessor. Aided by discoveries of Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald, he revamped the chronology of human evolution, placed the huge Gigantopithecus (450-550,000 years old) as man's earliest known ancestor...
...earliest aspirations toward European unity were mostly military. Rome unified those parts of Europe that it cared to lay hands on; but Europe as an entity did not exist. Charlemagne, a brief beacon in the Dark Ages, headed a "Roman Empire"-with the blessing of a new force for unity, the universal Church. Since then, most of the would-be unifiers have been secular-Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Hitler...
...Mother Disc. Dr. ter Haar prefers his own modification of one of the earliest modern theories, originally proposed by Immanuel Kant in 1755. Kant suggested that the planets condensed gradually from a gaseous envelope surrounding the sun. Later cosmogonists discarded this theory mostly because it did not account for the greater angular momentum of the outer planets. But Dr. ter Haar believes that all Kant needs is a little tinkering...
...wrote, more than 300 years ago, a Lancashire merchant named Gerard Ma-lynes, faithful servant to Elizabeth of England and one of Britain's earliest economic writers. Two centuries after Ma-lynes this became the bright gospel of "Free Trade," which seemed to promise to all men the freedom of the ocean, the tolerance of the high road and the fraternity of the market place. Of late decades, the promise has dimmed. Last week ended, somewhat dismally, a revival meeting of the once stirring gospel...
...Buffalo, it was the earliest port opening on record, 52 days ahead of last year. Shippers hoped that this meant an early opening for the rest of the Great Lakes, usually icebound till mid-April. It would come none too soon for steelmen. Their stockpiles of ore were so low that some mills were planning the expensive makeshift of shipping by rail from Minnesota's Mesabi range. The coal strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would cut their needs if it lasted long enough. But steelmen kept their fingers crossed on that, as the Mackinaw steamed north to smash through...