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...election should be held. The term of Senator Nicholson does not expire until 1927. But Senator Adams decided not to contest for the remaining two years of the Nicholson term. Instead he will vie with Mr. Phipps for a full six, and let the small fry scramble for the crust...
Aided by this letter and lots of crust, Skinner got an engagement with William Davidge's Stock Company, which gave bad performances at the Philadelphia Museum. During the season 1877-78 he played 92 parts, "including Negroes and women...
...lack of facilities. Though overcrowded with visitors to the glass flowers, the University Museum nevertheless affords an ample home for miniature volcanoes and the dry bones of once terrifying beasts. The multiplicity of levels in the subway offers a unique opportunity for a detailed study of the earth's crust; and any intensive study of the Charles is certain to dispel unscientific notions of the harmlessness of river water...
...made seems highly unlikely, and the theory, therefore, is probably unsound. Indeed, the report ventures to suggest that no disturbance of the soil structure should ever be permitted. For it seems probable that within a few years the whole mass of substance will have consolidated itself into a firm crust, entirely concealing the original flooring, and upon this surface the scuffle of feet and the scraping of chairs will be almost noiseless, much to the benefit of the lecturer...
...planetesimal hypothesis," and largely developed by Dr. Chamberlin. The earth probably never passed through a gaseous state. Volcanic action is local and arises from special causes. The earth's heat is not a legacy of a white-hot star, but the product of transformations of substance deep beneath the crust. Life has been continuous through all geologic ages, and has not been periodically destroyed or renewed by catastrophes. Cold climates have probably alternated with warm ones, but there is no evidence for universal glacial or torrid stages in the earth's history, and it is unnecessary to postulate a final...