Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MARSH, PIONEER IN PALEONTOLOGY-Charles Schuchert & Clara Mae LeVene-Yale...
Most of the Marshes went to Harvard: Othniel Charles Marsh went to Yale. There he became the first U. S. professor of paleontology. For Yale he wheedled from his uncle, crusty Financier-Philanthropist George Peabody, some $200,000 for the Peabody Museum of Natural History. For the Museum he assembled the largest collection of fossil vertebrates of his day, including the completely reconstructed skeletons of twelve dinosaurs, one pterodactyl. On his fossil hunts in the Wild West he dis covered that U. S. dinosaurs sometimes weighed 40 tons, that cretaceous birds had teeth, that cretaceous seas contained sea serpents...
...this week's TIME we notice that TIME gives credit to Mr. Lloyd Marsh, Passaic County leader, for the support given to Mr. Willkie by the New Jersey delegation...
...want to disparage the personal support Mr. Marsh gave Mr. Willkie but the situation should be clarified. We greatly appreciate the support Mr. Marsh and the other New Jersey delegates gave Mr. Willkie. The president and organizer of the 168 Willkie-for-President Clubs in New Jersey (which represent more than a quarter of the entire 425 clubs located throughout the country) is Mr. Donald J. Smith of Montclair - a schoolmate and lifelong personal friend of Mr. Willkie's. The facts of the matter are that due to the intensive drive of the Clubs and their workers, New Jersey...
West is West, but Ibis will get Agoos just the same. Some say Marsh Dyer will enter Doerr Edwards he's such a Haviladd. I guess EOK Zwonkas will Putnam more Clarktails down; he's shifting to Ballantine's. Here it is; just one Tyng after another, and all this Klawing by B. G., Zwonkas will Gilbert unless he stops Horning in on all the flies-he calls them birdies. Some one Sobin...