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LucyNickname for a remarkably complete (40% intact) hominin skeleton found by Donald Johanson at Hadar, Eth., in 1974 and dated to 3.2 million years ago. The specimen is usually classified as Australopithecus afarensis and suggests—by having long arms, short legs, an apelike chest and jaw, and a small brain but a relatively humanlike pelvis—that bipedal locomotion preceded the development of a larger (more humanlike) brain in hominin evolution. Lucy stood about 3 ft 7 in. (109 cm) tall and weighed about 60 lbs (27 kg). See also Hadar remains; Laetoli footprints; Sterkfontein. Lucy Saint. died ?303 ad, a virgin martyred by Diocletian in Syracuse. Feast day: Dec 13 Lucy know-it-all cartoon character gives advice to other children. [Comics: “Peanuts” in Horn, 543] See : Arrogance
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Lucy is monstrous pretty, and so good humoured and agreeable "Sometimes," he murmured softly, "I think that if I had strong fingers - really strong fingers, you know, Lucy - I should want to take you by the throat and hold you tighter and tighter, until your breath came fast, and your eyes came out from their shadows. She saw her Aunt Lucy arranging flowers in the drawing-room. |
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