Word: farish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard professor of Biology announced last week that an expedition he led during the summer had found the fossil remains of what is now thought to be the oldest mammal specimen in North America, Farish A. Jenkins Jr., who is also curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said the jaw-bone fossil belongs to a mouse-sized creature that lived about 180 million years ago. "This is the most exciting find of my career because it stimulates our research of the earliest stages of mammalian history," Jenkins said in announcing the discovery...
...Farish A. Jenkins Jr., professor of Biology and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said at a press conference in Washington, D.C., the discovery "shows us that mammals were more diverse than we had thought at the very beginning of mammal evolution...
...decision followed a lengthy discussion by the committee and a presentation by Farish A. Jenkins, professor of Biology and a Gomes Committee member. The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and committee chairman, had been scheduled to make a presentation at the CHUL meeting last night but was unable to attend...
...plot follows the ceaseless tour of the "Caravana Rolidei," a hilariously low-rent travelling carnival under command of Lord Gypsey (Jose Wilker), a tacky magician impresario. With him is his lover Salome (Betty Farish), "the Rhamba Queen," a tawdry sexpot who moonlights as a hooker, and a Black deaf-mute muscleman named Swallow. When this troupe rolls into Pirhanhas they become the way out for an idealistic, accordion-playing farmboy. Cico (Fabio Junior), who fears an existence rooted in the sleepy backlands and joins the outfit with his pregnant young wife. The old pros and the innocents rattle together from...
...there a relationship between the Chinese meridiens and Western anatomical features that might explain the effectiveness of acupuncture? Well, yes and no. Although he has not made a careful study, Farish A. Jenkins, professor of Biology and lecturer in Anatomy, says, "Some points are obvious because they block nerves but other sites don't make immediate sense...