Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arnold D. Lewis, head of the preparation laboratory of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, found the jaw bone and molar during an expedition to Lake Rudolph in Northern Kenya in 1967. The find was not announced until yesterday because extensive research was needed to determine the age of the fossil...
...Harvard museum official has discovered a five-million year old bone of a primitive...
...that it goes back as far as five million years. Ten years ago, scientists thought the Australopithecus, a direct ancestor of Homo sapiens, was only a half a million years old. Then several fossils were discovered which proved he lived long before that. But this is the oldest bone discovered...
...refined, carefully restricted resistance that the Berrigans preached. "Do not validate old bankrupt methods of coercion and murder." Daniel warned, "by creating new. bankrupt methods of roughly the same things." They remained exasperatingly ebullient: Philip was still the gregarious, plainspoken man who greeted friends with bear hugs or bone-crushing handshakes: Daniel still the wide-smiling purveyor of a deep, almost secret gaiety. When Daniel was arrested in August, the photo of the arrest prompted Dwight Macdonald and Robert McAfee Brown to identical judgments: Berrigan, grinning, was the free man; the dour agent the bound...
...fantastic speed, coordination, grace, and strength, to move a leather ball up and down the gridiron. This very absurdity, however, serves to intensify the spectator's awareness of the beauty of the game. It is the old story of art for art's sake. Football is a sort of bone-crunching ballet, with an improvised and unpredictable choreography. Like dancers, the players acquire a large repertoire of movements, then spontaneously combine them as they go along...