Word: fairfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most marvelous results of the ten years digging were dinosaur eggs, baluchitheria, and rats which lived with dinosaurs. In 1900 Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, paleontologist, predicted the finding of great fossil beds in Central Asia. That region, argued Dr. Osborn, was the dispersal point for many species of animals. Man too must have originated there. Dr. Andrews found places among the Gobi dunes where groups of humans once lived. But he could find no traces of very ancient human bones, nor of protohuman fossils. Simple Chinese use fossil bones, which they call dragon bones, for medicine. Way to test...
...Mutual Assurance Co. to write such policies. Licensed Jan. 3, with 400 policy holders, $600,000 in policies and a reinsurance contract which will guarantee all losses for each policy issued, Sportsmans Mutual was last week paying off its first indemnity-to Charles Wadsworth Howard, Joint Master of the Fairfield & Westchester Hounds, who had severed a tendon in his right hand while firing an expensive foreign-made shotgun...
...Princeton University (religion, Presbyterian). His tall, thin figure draped in a loosely cut suit has been seen on many a public platform, from which he has issued dignified appeals for charity from behind a mustache which is less voluminous than it once was. His brother is famed Naturalist Henry Fairfield Osborn; his wife was Alice Dodge, which accounts for his directorate in Phelps Dodge Corp...
...services last week. But the few who did know him knew him as a good banker, a good friend of President Davison. 25 years his senior. Polished, brilliant, faultlessly attired, he lives in Greenwich, Conn. His wife. Margaret Dunlop, a Southerner famed for her beauty, often rides to the Fairfield & Westchester Hounds with...
Elected. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davidson, president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History to succeed famed Fossil Man Henry Fairfield Osborn...