Word: hrdli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must to all men, death came last week to 74-year-old, white-maned Aleš Hrdlička (pronounced Alesh Hur-dlich-ka), second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate...
Anthropologist Aleś Hrdlička of the Smithsonian Institution tirelessly measures human skulls both quick and dead...
...detect than the differences. Eskimos have bigger heads than white men but are little if any brighter. The three largest skulls on record belong to an Aleutian Islander (capacity: 2,005 c.c.), an Algonquin "contemporary" of Pocahontas (2,200 c.c.), Russian Novelist Ivan Turgenev (2,030 c.c.). Recently Dr. Hrdlička examined the heads of 150 members of the National Academy of Sciences, which the Smithsonian calls "one of the most distinguished intellectual groups in the world." Last week the Smithsonian broadcast Hrdlička's conclusions...
...Also nonsense is belief in the "high brow." There were plenty of low brows among Hrdlička's scientists...
...None of these academicians has red hair. Hrdlička's kindly explanation: "Redheads may tend toward types of ability which, while outstanding, do not lead to . . . Academy membership...