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Tracks of what may prove to be a hitherto undiscovered form of dinosaur have been found by two University students in the Connecticut River Valley, source of many former prehistoric discoveries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN DISCOVER NEW DINOSAUR TRACKS | 10/29/1925 | See Source »

...purify the blood by means of gills meant success in escaping from the water to the land. Love of offspring and tender care for the young gave the weak and puny mammals of long ago the ability to triumph over much stronger and more powerful reptiles like the dinosaur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR MATHER OUTLINES ARGUMENTS TO PROVE WORTH OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY | 10/13/1925 | See Source »

From Africa, W. E. Cutler of the British Museum proclaimed the discovery of a dinosaur's shoulder blade, 6 ft. 2 in. wide, in the beds near Lake Tanganyika. The dinosaur had kin in western North America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...Book What of Howells' cast of mind, the nature of his work? Others having collated the external revelations of Howells; a patient, discriminating scholar has now set to work upon the vast cumulus of Howells' literary secretions, as would a paleontologist upon the ponderous remains of a dinosaur. He spreads them out, classifies them; then pores, probes, weighs, analyzes, to educe both a composite picture of the author and a meticulous evaluation of the cumulus itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Benevolent Realism* | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...When shall we get into communication with Mars? Why perhaps the Martians already have tried at the epoch of the iguanodon and the dinosaur and got tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Martian Opposition | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

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