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...oldest and most primitive corn cobs--scarcely larger than a one-cent piece--were found in Bat Cave, N.M. They are estimated to date from 3000 to 3900 B.C., the botanists revealed. The plant bearing these cobs was thought to be a slender shoot, one or two feet in height...
...comparing the Bat Cave cobs with later corn known to have been crossed with teosinte, the scientists obtained evidence of the value of teosinte. In addition, they experimentally proved that cross-breeding with teosinte causes corn to mutate and increase in variability, thus becoming more susceptible to human selection...
...Mexico City corn pollen fossils were found in drill cores studied by Dr. Paul Sears of Yale and Mrs. Kathryn Clisby of Oberlin College. The Bat Cave corn was found by Herbert Dick, then of Colorado State Museum...
...never held a court tennis racquet in his hand until he was 29. But by that time he had already served as a machine-gunner in the French army, was the French champion at the Basque games of chistera (jai alai), pala (jai alai with a small bat), and mains nues (handball). Within a year of taking up the 700-year-old game of court tennis, Pierre was champion of France, and five years later, in 1928, he was champion of the world...
...Indians' tight zone defense, the varsity fell behind, 18 to 9, at the end of the first quarter and trailed, 41 to 22, at the half. The Crimson scored on only 19 percent of the few shots it could get away in the first half and hit on bat 13 of 55 for the whole dismal evening...