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...aged and ageless field hand with a whip-striped back. In the eyes of Lieut. Byrne -a D.P. himself, as the son of an evicted tenant farmer from County Galway-they are as motley as the loth Cavalry's moniker for the whole of Troop M: the Calico Troop...
...controversy began with an attack by William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, in the October 12 edition of the Alumni Bulletin. Hocking claimed that the "frontal pattern of the new house suggests a calico print." He added that it is "devoid of taste, devoid of interest, devoid of imagination, and devoid of dignity," and concluded that "unfortunately it will last a long time...
...Master of the yet to be built eighth House denied a series of charges that the new structure would look like a "large apartment building" and have a front resembling "a checkered calico print," yesterday...
Carcasses & Calico. To the adventuring sailors of Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator, the idea of freedom for the African was as unheard of as the 20th century minerals germanium and uranium now being mined in the Congo. Slavery and servitude were the African's way of life, and in the first west coast trading posts established at the malarial edge of jungles as dark and green and impenetrable as the ocean bottom, native chieftains were only too glad to exchange the surplus humanity of their fiefs for the trinkets and calicoes of the newcomers. The human life...
...California's Calico Mountains have yielded fossilized aquatic insects 25 million years old-the oldest ever found. Discovered by a U.S. Geological Survey team, the specimens included mites, dragonfly nymphs, fairy shrimps. Almost all were perfectly preserved, showed only minute differences from their modern counterparts. One scientific explanation of bugs' slow evolution: more adaptable to climatic change than mammals, insects have rarely been found to change their bodies to survive ice ages and warm spells...