Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Princeton Dr. Jepsen pronounced the bones to be those of a leaping primate the size of a rat and structurally akin to the modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason...
...balance of last year's surplus. We have gradually increased our taxation, and we have dealt with the American debt liability in a manner which no one would have tolerated in the years for which I was responsible. I was the last orthodox Chancellor of the Victorian epoch. . . . I feel I am entitled to ask the House to regard me as the last of the Mohicans...
...that this work was not sociology. It is hard to agree with this view of a book which was characterized in the "Saturday Review of Literature" by Harold Laski as follows: "No one is entitled to speak of Russia who has not read this book. It marks a definite epoch in the understanding of the greatest historical event since the French Revolution." Laski affirms this in spite of his severe criticism of the Webb' treatment of individual freedom in the Soviet Union...
...Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Lee of Fareham, secretaries were sent out of the room, the doors were closed. As palpitating Publisher Ochs afterward recorded in his memorandum, "I left this conference in a high state of elation, feeling very much complimented to be entrusted with so important and epoch-making a message...
...memorandum was shown to Lord Lee, received his approval in writing, and contains this epilog by Mr. Ochs: "I have told Lord Lee on several occasions that I hoped some day to place a wreath of laurel on his brow for having been the originator and promoter of this epoch-making event." In Cuba, tough Lord Lee was a Rough Rider with the late great Theodore Roosevelt...