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...uncle, crusty Financier-Philanthropist George Peabody, some $200,000 for the Peabody Museum of Natural History. For the Museum he assembled the largest collection of fossil vertebrates of his day, including the completely reconstructed skeletons of twelve dinosaurs, one pterodactyl. On his fossil hunts in the Wild West he dis covered that U. S. dinosaurs sometimes weighed 40 tons, that cretaceous birds had teeth, that cretaceous seas contained sea serpents. He helped organize the U. S. Geological Survey (see p. 66), was a lifelong friend of British Evolutionist Thomas Huxley. He exposed the Cardiff Giant ("a gypsum...
Were it not for a U. S. G. A. ruling that dis qualifies contestants who play out of turn, this year's Open would have ended in a triple tie, just as it did last year. Big Ed Oliver of Hornell, N. Y., playing in his first Open, also posted 287, was disqualified because he started a half hour before his scheduled time...
...hypertensive patient has one dis eased kidney, Dr. Goldblatt can lower his blood pressure by removing it. But where both kidneys are clogged, there is nothing he can do. So, although fellow physicians hail Dr. Goldblatt's work as one of the great medical contributions of the last 20 years, they admit that, so far, nothing much can be done with...
...coffee, left after one sitting and never came back. Artist Friedman put him on canvas in his faded overcoat and battered hat, with one eye out of focus. He spent most time painting the hand, made it the symbol of a working function that society had dis carded...
...Reader Marx the threadbare dis tinction of pinning the aptest adjective...