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Word: logistic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturalists have long been interested in the strange animals of Australia, the duck-billed platypus, spiny Australian anteater, the kangaroo, wombat, emu, casowary. Last week, Albert Sherbourne Le Souëf, zoölogist of Taronga Zoölogical Park, Sydney, told Australian naturalists of a huge newly discovered catlike marsupial with striped stomach seeen in mountainous Queensland districts. Said he: "I am positive Australia will present another zoölogical curiosity to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Australian Curiosity | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Famed are Berkeley's pedagogs, among them: Professor Herbert McLean Evans, discoverer of vitamin E; Professor Charles Atwood Kofoid, celebrated zoölogist, Professor Robert Heinrich Lowie., onetime (1913-21) curator of the American Museum of Natural History; Professor Gilbert Newton Lewis, whose theory of Time-Past and Time-Future may win him the Nobel Prize (TIME, April 28) ; Professor Andrew Cowper Lawson, international geologist, onetime (1914-18) dean of the College of Mining. For his good humor as well as his capabilities, dear to the heart of many a Californian is Professor Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley, pedagog and poetaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: California's Investment | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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