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...more in accord with the facts than is TIME'S statement that pickups ranging to 7,000 cycles ". . . fail to catch the high overtones of a flute." Of all musical instruments, the flute is distinguished by its complete lack of overtones on its higher notes, and the extremely thin harmonic structure of its low tones. The highest overtone produced by a flute is about 2,500 cycles...
...striking thing, when one looks at these pictures, is the overbred, exhausted, even decadent style of beauty that now seems to be striven after. Nearly all of these women are immensely elongated. A thin-boned, ancient-Egyptian type of face seems to predominate: narrow hips are general, and slender, nonprehensile hands like those of a lizard are quite universal. Evidently it is a real physical type...
...dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning the wool into long capes. Yi and Miao women are heavily bejeweled with amber and jade, worked in silver. Most of them smoke long, thin pipes. Yi and Miao characters are written in a horizontal line instead of vertically like the Chinese...
...developed that the drummer, Jimmy Crawford, is a comedian on the side. Though he had to peer over one of the most enormous cymbals ever affixed to a set of traps, and was situated somewhat obscurely at the very back center of the stage, the pained contortionings of his thin, mobile face and the adept drumstick twirling of his educated fingers got a great deal of attention from the audience. The drummer, the pianist, and the bass player, when they were functioning behind the clarinet, managed to build up a charged rhythmic setting which did fully as much for Edmond...
From Harvard's ever-ready Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton (Why Men Behave Like Apes and Vice Versa), the girls learned how to pick a good husband. Thin men, the professor warned, are apt to be mumblers who hate people and tire easily. Two-fisted Atlases stamp around the house complaining about the lack of exercise; besides, they grow old young. The best husband-a nice, sociable type who appreciates the comforts of home-is the fat man, or "butterball type...