Word: fossilized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balloon in 1935, the outstanding granite mountain whose top Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is blasting into the shape of Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's heads, the Wind Cave National Monument whose ten underground square miles have never been well explored, and the Fossil Cycad National Monument whose 360 acres preserve trees petrified 120,000,000 years...
Having his head full of many other things, including a sewage disposal plant on the Potomac, Secretary Ickes had his publicity-wise Personal Assistant Harry Slattery write this refusal to Paleobotanist Wieland: ". . . The subject of fossil cycads does not have a broad appeal. . . . The story can be effectively told by a display which, for the present at least, can be housed in the administration building at Wind Cave National Monument, 22 miles distant...
...great good friend of the late Andrew Carnegie whom he resembles,* Professor Wieland last week retorted warmly in the columns of Science that Fossil Cycad National Monument "has no more to do with speleology [cave lore] than the snowcap of Kilimanjaro. It must have been an oversight on the part of nature to put so much scientific clarity and loveliness only 22 miles from a cavern in a gulch and now surrounded by a sort of caravansary. That is not what the student of evolution exactly wishes to see first. . . . Will the 'public' be as dumb tomorrow...
Grinnell Jones, professor of chemistry, was elected President; George M. Fair, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering, vice-president; Frank M. Carpenter '26, assistant professor of paleontology and Curator of Fossil Insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, secretary, and Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of astronomy, treasurer...
...animal drawings. In almost all these the focus of Skeaping's interest is the interplay of muscle and shadow. On view were an infuriated elephant, with eyes bulging out of its head; grave, long-fingered, acrobatic monkeys; a Dartmoor pony standing in ferns that look like fossil prints; an old Zebu bull with mountainous shoulders; a leopard which is almost pure draftsmanship without substance. A formalized antelope reminded visitors of the wall drawings of Cro-Magnon cave men. A group of storks and herons seemed to be millions of years old, to show atavistic traces of reptilian ancestry...