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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within ten days after it left Peking, the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (TIME, April 28), under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, unearthed a fossil carnivorous dinosaur in the Mongolian desert. The giant, lizard-like reptile has not been identified with other known species, but belongs probably to the Triassic period (4,000,000 to 10,000,000 years ago). The legs are nine feet long, almost as large as the great herbivorous brontosaurus, some specimens of which in American museums have legs ten feet long, a total length of 50 to 90 feet...
...discovery of an unidentified carnivorous dinosaur in the Mongolian desert...
...most fertile source of this sort of research and sends out annually a large number of expeditions. Its third Asiatic expedition has just left Peking under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, the well-known naturalist and explorer. It will prospect for six months the treasures of the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, known to be rich in fossil flora and fauna, including mastodons and mammoths, which are believed to have wandered eastward from their source in central Asia. Popular expectations with regard to the " missing link " of human evolution and the site of the "Garden of Eden" are hardly...
Bella Donna. Pola Negri's first American picture is, except for the continuously electric Pola, just another vampire-film, deodorized as much as possible to please the censor. There's a sheik and an English nobleman and a little box of poison and a desert with a prowling lion-and none of it matters very much. Except when Pola appears. Daddy. A blatant assault upon the lachrymal glands, with a few snatches of inimitable comedy by young Mr. Coogan. He is, as you may have guessed, a downtrodden little boy-violinist in search of his long-lost daddy...
...Broun as Schoolman's Champion-Gems and the Desert Air Mr. Heywood Broun of Harvard and The New York World has made a discovery in the field of education. More than that, he has devoted a good half-perhaps the good half-of his sprightly Column to its exposition. But unfortunately there is little comfort for the publishers of educational news in this happy event, for Mr. Broun's discovery is the fact that there is no such news. He has read the newspapers, including the sporting pages, assiduously and he knows "not a thing about the character...