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Word: obsession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible progenitor of Homo sapiens. . . . However, it seems to me that the most outstanding characteristic of British anthropology is the essentially sporting atti tude taken by scientists toward the discovery and acceptance of new finds, which may be contrasted with the morbid simian suspicions which obsess the Germans and the cynical detachment of the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brutes & Scholars | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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