Word: fossils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political monarch: "I don't think the people of Indiana are taking it seriously." In 1956, Senator Jenner is the symbol of a brand of Republicanism that has quietly, gradually, relentlessly been made obsolete by the Eisenhower Administration. He has been transformed from a reactionary into a fossil...
...Fossil Imprints. This week the Seattle Art Museum is showing 35 of Callahan's most recent oil and tempera paintings...
...most successful is The Crater (see cut), dominated by lava-black swirls in which prehistoric reptiles, ghostly riders and a whole flotsam of humanity are discovered like fossil imprints in a violently sheared rock...
During the summer of 1954, Barghoorn, with two geologist colleagues, uncovered the oldest coal deposits yet discovered. The age of the coal, pre-Cambrian, is of great geological interest as it carries back the fossil record of plant life to over a billion years...
...determining whether the "big man on campus" still exists or has become an extinct fossil, we are planning to publish a feature on BMOCism at Princeton. We would like to include an additional survey of other Ivy League schools and request your help in this matter...