Measure Your Giant Carefully And His Size Will Shrink
Ongoing controversy over a hobbitlike hominid.
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February 24, 1934 | Vol. 25 | No. 672
Measure Your Giant Carefully And His Size Will Shrink
The American public may scoff a bit at fairies, but it would like very much to believe in giants.
At least, so it appears from the thin but steady stream of letters received at the Smithsonian Institution.
Every month in the year brings these letters. They come from people eager to tell that they have found the bones of a race of seven or eight foot giants that stalked about the countryside in the ancient times.