Word: fossils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resources, number and distribution of population, are in constant state of flux, so that the economist's task is never done. His materials must ever be collected anew, and his work ever repeated; the economic order changes, and the living specimens of today become in a few years the fossil remains of a bygone age. We are speaking, it will be noted, not of changes in theories but of mutations in the phenomena with which theories deal in no field, probably, does the scientist have to deal with phenomena that change so generally and rapidly as in that...
...Manhattan, seven weeks ago, a picture (The Fossil Hunters) by Edwin W. Dickinson, exhibited by the National Academy of Design, won a prize although hung on its side (TIMF...
...geologist can do with all the tools of science at his service is to locate underground formations where oil might have seeped. Thus the geologist can prevent useless digging. When he picks the site of a probable well, he studies the subsurface rock and sand, particularly for those minute fossil animals called foraminifera whose deep presence almost always means oil a little ways farther down. So accurate have geologists become in their prospecting, so reliable that of 170 wells recently drilled, geologists indicated 157. Only 13 were wildcats.-Oklahoma's Charles Newton Gould...