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...Court of Arbitration in all mutual disputes. To these advanced peoples, so boldly in the van of Peace, so highly educated, so progressive in politics, police methods, liquor control and social legislation, the grim, tremendous, deadly Rodney might well have seemed as incongruous, as curiously old fashioned as a dinosaur or brontosaurus...
...Makers, Aborigines who preceded the Cliff Dwellers, used cotton for their textiles, inner bark of the squawberry bush for their baskets. A grooved boomerang with a handle suggested a remote connection between the Basket Makers and the boomerang throwers of Australia. On this trip he secured two boxes of dinosaur bones...
...Proud though the American Museum is of its fish and animal collections, it is prouder of (and more famed for) its bird and dinosaur collections. Pride of other U. S. museums: Chicago's Field, botanical material; Washington's National, technical progress; San Francisco's Golden Gate, habitat groups of North American animals; Denver's Colorado, arrow heads and prehistoric bison: Washington's Red Cross, war material: Yale, fossil vertebrates; Harvard, birds and glass flowers...
...confused with the ichthyosaurus, another, larger reptile with a tremendous head, practically no neck, four complex flippers; nor with the famed giant dinosaur which often attained a length of 70 feet, whose four appendages were limbs adapted for land travel. †The pineal (glandular) body in the human brain, which is subtly related to certain conditions of obesity and certain sexual phenomena, is generally considered to be the vestige of a third...
...topographers, zoologists, archeologists, accompanied by 125 camels, eight motor trucks, many horses and Chinese boys, seek the western wastes of Gobi hoping to uncover secrets of man's origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest will centre on recent prehuman ancestors not older than three million years...