Word: caves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoulders like goal posts and an appetite for hard work, long hours and a pipe that smells like an unfrequented sulphur sink in Yellowstone Park. Son of a Hannibal, Mo. locomotive engineer (as a boy he saw Hannibal's first citizen, Mark Twain, explored Tom Sawyer's cave), Nelson worked his way through the University of Missouri waiting on tables, where he studied human nature by observing the reactions of students on whom he spilled hot gravy...
When Colonel John Stuart found some fossils in a Virginia cave, he naturally sent them to Monticello where Jefferson was known to include old bones among his strange (and, folk said, atheistic) interests. In 1797 Jefferson described the fossil creature before the American Philosophical Society (of which he was then president) as a kind of enormous lion because of its eight-inch claws. Wrote he: "I cannot . .. help believing that this animal, as well as the mammoth, are still existing." When Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark up the Missouri River and Captain Zebulon Pike into the Rockies, he half-hoped...
This was not completely silly. Megalonyx jeffersoni is so recent that its bones sometimes bear wisps of hair. Paleontologist Patterson thinks that cave men helped to exterminate the creatures though "an embrace from a sloth would have made a bear's hug look like child's play." In expecting to bag a Megalonyx, Jefferson was not "wrong by more than a few thousand years." As bone-diggers measure time, this was only day before yesterday...
Carmen Amaya is about 19: her family cannot quite remember, and their notes on the subject differ. She began dancing for tourists when she was four, in the family cave in the gypsy quarter of Granada. The footloose Amayas took her to dance at the Barcelona exhibition when she was about seven, let her appear in Singer Raquel Meller's show in Paris a year later...
...scientist had a skull strikingly like that of the Aurignacian man-a cave man of the late...