Word: caving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Galloping horses confused artists long before the Persians. To compare one prehistoric cave dweller's version (circa 20,000 B.C.) with Remington's realistic cow ponies, see cuts...
...Cave." Bluff Ohioan Bab bitt seemed a mart out of his time. Causes were bursting all about him, and the only kind of conscience that seemed fashion able was the social kind. Rolling a pencil between his hands, Babbitt spoke of the "inner obeisance" that man must have "to something higher than his ordinary self." He despised the new ethics that was based entirely on the assumption that the only "significant struggle between good and evil is not in the individual but in society." In one sense, Irving Babbitt almost blasted Nathan Pusey's academic career. His broad humanism...
...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...