Word: fossils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Which of us children to get to the fossil stage before they are able to strike out for themselves even if we are able to provide for them until that time comes? America is far ahead of other countries as a whole and it is the people, these same people who are educated in these unladylike colleges and universities who make America. Down with such snobbery...
...Arizona. Last year Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) found the shattered fragments of a fossil reptile in Arizona. He carefully preserved each piece. But when he tried to put his little 3-ft. reptile together, he found many of the fragments missing. He recognized the fossil as the remains of an ancestor of the ancient dinosaur. This year he went to Arizona again, sifted 15 tons of dirt through fly screens. Fortnight ago he returned to Manhattan with a cigar box half-full of bits to complete his paleontologic jigsaw puzzle. The small reptile which...
...thorax. Smallest insects are 1/100 in. long, scarcely discernible to the human eye. There is a chunky beetle (Macrodontia cervicovnis) 6 in. long, and some stick-insects reach 13-in. in length. Insect with the greatest wingspread is the moth Erebus agrippina, spread 11 in. But a fossil dragon fly had a 2-ft. spread...
When an animal dies, the possibility of his becoming a fossil occurs only if he is buried shortly after death or possibly at the time of death. In this event the body does not have a chance to rot, but is pressed unharmed into a rock layer. The dense nature of the rock strata in this quarry is of advantage in that water is prevented from seeping through and hence rotting away the tiny remains...
...Fossils. Notable among the Manhattan Press meetings was the congress of Fossils. Founded at the Centennial Exposition in 1876, the Fossils were originally titled the National Amateur Press Association, were 1,400 strong. As Fossils, this year's was the 27th annual reunion. Members fore-gathered in lower Manhattan at the Fossil Library, where musty walls and showcases are filled with nearly 40,000 amateur newspapers, clippings, photographs, relics. With the advent of the linotype, Fossils regretfully remember, boy-edited journalism gradually passed away. Membership in the organization is gained by presenting a copy of a nonprofessional, personally published paper...