Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Davenport, a 30-year veteran of the Cambridge Police Department, was sworn in yesterday as the city's chief of police, succeeding Nicholas Fratto who has been serving as temporary chief for the past six months...
Seen in my dreams at night: Tim Davenport throwing touchdown passes to Jim Curry in every game except against Columbia next year...
...Davenport '78 said yesterday that the additional game will not prove to be a strain on the players. "The effect of an extra week is minimal when you've been training three months already," Davenport said...
Gardner points out that another result of such isolation is that other scientists are usually not aware of the outsider's theories until they reach the popular press. In fact, Marshall McKusick, who wrote a book in 1970 detailing how the Davenport tablets (one of which Fell relies on for evidence) are most likely frauds, was not even aware of Fell's claims until he was informed of them after Fell wrote his book. It seems reasonable to expect that a responsible scientist would have communicated with McKusick before making such claims as Fell advances for the Davenport tablet...
Fell himself now downplays the importance of the Davenport finds, denying that the tablet is the "American Rosetta Stone" hailed by his publisher and the Reader's Digest. Nevertheless, he still defends its authenticity. After all, he can read it, he says. One of the scripts on it, Libyan, was supposedly deciphered for the first time by Fell himself...