Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lobed and limb-like fins, a curious double tail divided by a spinal projection. It is a typical member of the Coelacanths, a primitive fish family which first appeared 300,000,000 years ago when the only land animals were amphibians, and which was widespread and flourishing when the Age of Reptiles was just getting under way. The family has been considered extinct for 50,000,000 years because that is the most recent date assigned to any Coelacanth fossil found in the rocks. Thus the discovery of a live Coelacanth in the world of airplanes and television...
Died. Histo, circa 100, famed Indian army scout who led in the capture of the Modoc Indian renegade, Captain Jack; of old age; in Warm Springs Reservation...
...cinema version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World, a remote wilderness is peopled with fantastic dinosaurs, purported survivors of the Age of Reptiles (200 million to 60 million years ago). No one believes that such creatures actually live anywhere in the modern world, for one reason because its land areas have been too well explored. But the bottom of the sea has not been explored. Last week ichthyologists scratched their heads in wonder over completely authenticated reports of a fish, caught alive in December 1938, whose kind should have perished 50 million years...
While her papa, Egypt's King Farouk, attended the exhumation of one of his royal predecessors, Princess Ferial (age four months) faced the world in her first picture. Egypt's adoring fellaheen fondly assured one another that the picture bore a strong resemblance to their late princess, Cleopatra...
...fact is that S. F. Porter is a pretty, vivacious, prodigious young lady who was just 22 when she tweaked Secretary Morgenthau's dignity nearly four years ago. Sensitive about her age ever since Cornell refused her a scholarship because she was only 16. Sylvia Field Porter graduated from Hunter College and talked her way into a job with an investment counsel firm in the desolate year of 1932. In 1935 she went to work as a financial writer for the New Dealish New York evening Post and when the struggling Post last year had to cut expenses...