Word: mastodon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mastodon softball power, operating behind the roundhouse righthand slants of Bill Johnson, crashed the Bunny defenses in the fourth inning to overcome an early 4-0 deficit. From there on, it was the old story of Eliot power, as the team raised its two-run scoring total to 39 runs...
...play resumed, the Deacons took the ball on the kickoff and marched straight down the field for their second touchdown. Spinning and driving through monstrous holes in the Mastodon line, Winter, Thompson, and Jerry Glynn gained almost at will, Winters scoring easily on a first down from the four. Hollis French made the extra point on a fake kick on which he ran around...
...scallopers took their catch to New York, where Dr. Edwin H. Colbert of the American Museum of Natural History identified the tooth as the upper left third molar of a mastodon (a proto-elephant of the Pleistocene Age that tramped North America some 30,000 to 250,000 years...
There are two theories, said Dr. Colbert, of how the molar may have got so far from land, 1) The dead mastodon, enclosed in a block of ice, may have drifted down the Hudson-then a great, glacier-fed river. Some geologists believe that during the Pleistocene Age the ocean was lower because the glaciers that covered much of the land locked up so much water. So 2) the mastodon may have walked to the scallop bank on its own big feet...
Stroked by Oliver Scholle, the Mastodon sweepswingers held an advantage for all but a fraction of the mile course, when an erratically driven Adams boat took the lead at the three-quarter mark, only to finish last about two feet behind Winthrop...