The skull ended up as Dubois’ personal Waterloo. His work received nothing but rejection and derision throughout the next decade, and the bones became dark secrets for much of the early twentieth century, locked away in Dubois’ home, unavailable for study by other scholars.

A fuzzy on the other hand is a people person, — someone who prefers studying the humanities or social sciences, someone who sees the world in broad contextual terms.

He soon became not merely tipsy, but embarrassingly drunk.

3) Die Langeweile — , to beguile ennui, the taedium or dullness [of a place &c.] with playing;