Word: fossilizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fossil-finders, taking care to leave their finds undisturbed until trained diggers come, notify the National Research Council at No. 2101 Constitution Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C.-ED. Marconi's Parabola...
Separated. George Gaylord Simpson, of the American Museum of Natural History's field staff, onetime Yale professor; and Mrs. Lydia P. Simpson. Her charge: He carried on correspondences with young women in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Amarillo, Tex., he had met on fossil hunts. Countercharge: She made scenes in the Museum of Natural History...
...leave on a long journey last week was President Henry Fairfield Osborn. Next New Year's Day he will have completed 25 years as museum president, 41 as a curator. Then he will resign the presidency, remain perhaps as president-emeritus, perhaps as honorary curator-in-chief of fossil vertebrates...
...desire is created, if the flame is lit, then the other thing will follow as a rule, though not invariably. The question is, therefore, under what system the young freshman is likely to catch fire soonest. If the situation is visualized as lying between Professor Fossil droning away in his lecture room over the heads of 300 young undergraduates, and thirty alert and eager young tutors taking hold of that freshman mass in groups of ten individuals, then there is little doubt whence the greater urge will come. But it is far from always being Professor Fossil...
...Opals are iridescent bits of silica which sometimes permeate fossil débris...