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...Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, who uses a dinosaur trademark to dramatize the age of his petroleum beds, offered to finance another expedition. Last month Dr. Brown bared no less than eight skeletons of the ancient monsters. Last fortnight he uncovered four more. The twelve skeletons are apparently of a hitherto unknown species. In an exultant but anxious message to the Museum last week Dr. Brown reported the welter of bones so tangled that none could be moved until charts and photographs have been made and the entire 25 x 60 ft. site excavated...
...Lenses combine those col ors and a second scanning disk synchronized with the first paints a colored x-ray image on a screen. Dark greys become red. light greys blue, medium greys yellow. An amplifying system allows the operator to intensify any color he pleases and bring into view hitherto invisible organs...
...this point, but at that performance, on Friday evening, May 11, the untainted record of the German bandmaster's son was spoiled. It was while Lucrczia Bori was singing Debussy's "Recitative and Aria of Lia," from L'Enfant Prodigitc, that Mr. Stock's hitherto intact baton went sailing in three pieces from his passionate grasp into the ranks of the scraping violinists, one fragment just barely missing a plunge down the low back of the diva's gown. Mr. Stock, unaccountably prepared for the emergency, picked up another stick from his desk and went...
...this might seem trivial! Conservatives might wink a wise eye at that "spirit of discipline and fair play inculcated on the sporting fields of Harvard" which has so delightfully been carried overseas to grace the hitherto depraved Fatherland. The average Harvard man might feel fairly titillated by Hanfstaengl's glowing tribute to "American energy, character, and idealism." Indeed, conservative professors, if not profiteering patriots, might revel in the lovable Ernst's bid for "intellectual, scientific, and human interchange between the U.S. and Germany, without which there can be no true insight, no true understanding, no true progress...
...undefeated Yale varsity crew: the Carnegie Cup race at Derby. Conn., beating hitherto undefeated Princeton by a length...