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Naturally, there are dangers presented by this Revolution. If complete flexibility for individual freedom should result in a lowering of standards, the situation will be pregnant with peril. If the Faculty were to become a menagerie of scholars, and teachers were to become as prehistoric as the dinosaur, Harvard would be little more than an over-crowded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. CONANT RIDES TO CONCORD | 6/19/1935 | See Source »

...Quakers distributed anti-war leaflets to the crowd while a chartered airplane overhead rained down more printed matter. Few days later, after the Secretary of War was well out of the way, the Quakers held a meeting of their own in the Plaza, exhibited a model of a dinosaur ("All Armor Plate -No Brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No More War | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...process of assembly last week in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History was the skeleton of a 74-ft. dinosaur, a 130,000,000-year-old relic not much different in appearance from a few other such relics in a few other U. S. museums. This monster's recent history, however, was unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Neck, Tail, Trade | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...skeleton was discovered some years ago by diggers from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum which had long been probing the great dinosaur graveyard in the desolate badlands near Jensen, Utah. Having sent an abundance of bones back to Pittsburgh, the Carnegie men left the skeleton partly exposed for tourists to gape at, other diggers to retrieve. In due time a party from Washington's Smithsonian Institution arrived, began busily to exhume the remains. They quickly discovered that the neck vertebrae were missing. When high & low search failed to disclose them, it was decided to remove the neck from another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Neck, Tail, Trade | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Texas. One hundred million years old were the dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi Desert by Roy Chapman Andrews. They were the earliest eggs known to Science until the return of Harvard's latest expedition from the Permian Red Beds of north central Texas. From that ancient ground Diggers Theodore White and Llewellyn Price plucked a rust-colored fossil egg, three inches long, which they estimated to be 225,000,000 years old. All evidence indicated that the egg was laid by Ophiacodon, a six-foot reptile with ponderous head and meagre limbs. Last week Harvard announced that the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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