Word: glaciality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mind evolves. Date of these cave paintings is about 30,000 B.C.-the Paleolithic or Early Stone Age. It was a glacial epoch: the last continental ice sheet, retreating from northern Germany and Britain, still covered Scandinavia. The Alpine and Pyrenean glaciers shouldered far out into the adjoining plains; all Europe was cold, ranged over by reindeer, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses (see cut, p. 50). Here, arriving probably by migration from North Africa, homo sapiens first appeared in Europe. The Cro-Magnon race inherited or seized the valleys of the small-brained, beetle-browed, long-armed, chinless and nigh speechless homo...
Starting Saturday morning, members of the coaching staff; squad, launch drivers, and managers set about sounding the glacial material which all winter has concealed the Charles' murky waters, downstream on M.I.T., whose oarsmen already have a month's practice behind them...
...frequent concentrators who was lured into the field by Mather's Geology 1 lectures, you'll find especially interesting his discourses on glacial geology, 5, and on petroleum, 17. They are delightful, if only because Mather is Mather...
Cloyd Weaver Miller, an Ohio little businessman, is self-appointed gadfly to RFC. Last week stocky, white-haired Mr. Miller, with a crusader's gleam in his glacial blue eyes, laid plans to go to Washington to bring to a pestiferous climax the strangest one-man campaign of harassment ever waged against a New Deal agency...
Excited as a hungry terrier was Bryan Patterson when erosion revealed a deposit of old bones in a pasture near London Mills, 111. Out of the glacial blue clay came parts of a hind leg, pelvis, forefoot, vertebrae, a molar tooth. Back in Chicago's Field Museum, where he is Assistant Curator of Paleontology, Patterson pieced the fragments together. Last week he announced that he had one of the finest fossil ground sloths discovered in the U. S. since 1796. In that year the huge, extinct beast was first studied and named Megalonyx by a great U. S. paleontologist...