Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dead fish and petroleum forever...
That coal is the compressed and carbonized remains of prehistoric vegetation is known to everyone. Dr. John M. Macfarlane, Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that petroleum is the product of buried beds of organic matter derived from fish. He traces the origin of petroleum to volcanic disturbances which in early geological times upheaved the water and land surface of the earth and killed immense quantities of fish. Extensive zones of fish remains have been found throughout the northern hemisphere in the same rocks with rich bituminous oil deposits. Sometimes oil migrates long distances through porous...
...Knowledge of the origin and location of fish deposit beds will enable man to discover new oil sources and to produce oil for commercial use more cheaply...
...Macfarlane is a Scotchman, 68 years old, educated in Edinburgh. He was Professor of Botany at Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1919 and stands high in his specialty. He has been studying the relation of fish to petroleum for 50 years. Scientists familiar with his work attest its authenticity...
Harvard vs Middlebury: B. R. Cutcheon '25 (H), W. L. Chapin '25 (H), H. R. Kobes '26 (H), W. C. Harrison '26 (H), R. Cook (M), J. Hancock (M), E. B. Boyce '26 (H), M. Lathrop (M), E. Fish (M), L. Kelley (M), Time: 34 minutes, 25 seconds. Distance 5 1-2 miles...