Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annual Herman F. Kahn lecture series last night with a speech on "Myth and History." Professor Brandon Homer devoted the major portion of his address to the renowned Homer-Smith theory of Underground Migration, propounding that mankind had, at one stage of pre-history, lived on the Earth's crust. Homer said that evidence supporting the theory exists in many branches of study, and offered an example of "linguistic evidence" by analyzing such phrases as "green plant" and "starry night," still common in primitive dialects...
...most recent scientific ventures to the surface, according to Homer, indicate that in fact a war did take place. "This is still a moot question," he noted, since the Underground Migration supposedly occurred at a stage when all crust life was extraneous...
...scientifically stimulating myth" and "improbable religious myth" he scoffed at the folk tale of all the animals descended from a male and female of each species set aside in a special bomb shelter during these prehistoric times. He also questioned the religious doctrine that the basic freezing, and radioactive crust represents God's place of punishment...
...concluding, Homer recounted some of the major questions raised by crust-stage like which will confront the new University Research Center devoted to the field...
...Already, the ancient belief that man's stature exceeded four feet at some point in history," the philosopher told his amazed listeners, "has stimulated important research in the physicology of growth and shrinkage." Another intriguing question which must be studied, according Homer, is whether, during the brightly over-mined crust stage, man had any sort of optic organ...