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Word: cambrian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rebuttal came neither from Lady Nancy Astor M. P. (Conservative) nor from Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield M. P. (Laborite), but from Britain's biggest businesswoman, Viscountess Rhondda. the "Coal Queen of Wales," Directress of Cambrian Colleries Ltd.; a peeress in her own right and therefore ineligible to sit in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Cambrian Life", Professor Raymond, Geology Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

...Cambrian Life", Professor Raymond, Geology Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

Primeval microbes found alive in Pre-Cambrian rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: American Association | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Hastily he planted the scrapings in test tubes with germ culture mediums. He sealed the tubes so that no modern air could affect the scrapings. If he did have pre-Cambrian life in his tubes modern air would spoil his research, for the earth's present atmosphere is quite different from that of geological ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pre-Cambrian Microbes | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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