Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan for employees of the University bodes well for the tradition of progressive liberalism which was so recently sounded by President Conant. With the impetus of the nation-wide approbation of President Roosevelt's social security leanings, handed down by the country on November third, the theory of old-age pensions has pervaded into every corner and cranny of the United States...
...social security program of the government is not applicable in charitable institutions or the halls of learning. Harvard is not required by law to accept its provisions, nor to provide for its employees other than as it sees fit. Old age pensions or job insurance--these are matters for the corporation to adjust when and how they please, regardless of the general law or the popular sentiment...
...though internecine bickering over details and lack of cooperation among the houses might foil the launching of the plan itself, the prospect still remains undimmed. Some day Harvard must recognize separate and distinct personalities for each of its seven houses if they are to grow in stature as in age...
California's anthropology department, pronounced it that of a 70-year-old woman with a long, narrow head. Dr. Bowden stated that the skull could not possibly be an "intrusion" since it was under a 13-ft. deposit of clay, referred it definitely to glacial times, put its age tentatively at 30,000 years. "The Ballona Woman," he wrote, "gives a more conclusive proof than any yet found of very early prehistoric man in America." He found remains of a Pleistocene elephant nearby...
Arizona. Huge, beaked reptiles gliding on batlike wings, the pterosaurs reached their greatest size in the Chalk Age (60-130 million years ago), achieved wingspreads up to 30 feet. These hollow-boned hobgoblins weighed no more than a Thanksgiving turkey. In the older Jurassic period (130-170 million years ago) they were generally much smaller than in the Chalk Age. Digging into a desert mountain slope which once was seabottom, Dr. T. A. Stoyanow, University of Arizona geologist, laid bare a Jurassic pterosaur skeleton with a wingspread of some 28 feet, biggest specimen of that period ever found...