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...violation of agreements at the State convention. Declared disgusted Mr. Creel: "I think any one who votes in California this fall has to hold his nose. It's a choice between catalepsy and epilepsy. Sinclair has a fantastic, impossible plan and Merriam is as modern as the dinosaur...
...years ago Dr. Brown partly exposed the remains of two sauropods, was halted by lack of funds. This year Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, who uses a dinosaur trademark to dramatize the age of his petroleum beds, offered to finance another expedition. Last month Dr. Brown bared no less than eight skeletons of the ancient monsters. Last fortnight he uncovered four more. The twelve skeletons are apparently of a hitherto unknown species. In an exultant but anxious message to the Museum last week Dr. Brown reported the welter of bones so tangled that none could be moved until charts and photographs...
...reptile which grated in the lewlands of castern Wyeming more than sixty millien years ago, will be placed on exhibit at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard this week. The skull is 5 feet long and 4 1-2 feet wide, and was mounted in life on a dinosaur about eighteen feet long and ten feet high...
...This dinosaur, known as Triceratops eurycephalus (wide-head), represents the last recorded surviver of that great grump known as the Certopstaus...
Like a paleontologist who reconstructs what might have been a dinosaur from a fragment of its jawbone, Evelyn Scott has built a life-size novel from a few strangers' photographs. In her rented East Anglian cottage Author Scott found herself wondering about the people whose group pictures helped adorn the walls, soon was giving names, relationships, histories to their different faces. Though she does not claim infallibility for her method, she implies that a knowledge of contemporary types is all a novelist requires for such a reconstruction: "For the historian, the tombs of Egypt and his own contemporary mentality...