Word: mollusk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase "where competition is so keen" meant a great deal more to oil men than it did to the general public. All this year they have been watching New York and a large part of the East undergo a seachange. Across the landscape has been appearing a horde of mollusk shells, artistically represented in red and yellow, with the letters SHELL prominently inscribed upon them. Oil men know that the letters stand for Royal Dutch Shell, great Anglo-Dutch rival of Standard Oil, and for its U. S. subsidiaries-Shell Union and Shell Eastern Petroleum...
Criticism of U. S. teachers came last week from Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, addressing the annual convocation of summer students at Columbia University. Said Dr. Coffin: ". . . Brachiopod teachers are at fault. Brachiopods are mollusk-like creatures, the most ancient inhabitants of this planet, which have always reproduced their own species, but never had any part in the evolution of other living creatures. . . . There are brachiopod teachers who transmit their own minds but do not stimulate students to advance human knowledge...
...like forms may be produced". This is one of the most interesting parts of the exhibit as it shows the steps in the development of a fossil, the appearance of which is vividly pictured in the fossilized slab before mentioned. Among the invertebrates is a fossil shell of a mollusk, which is one of the largest in the world, being nine and a half feet in length. Only a part of this gigantic shell is present, the entire specimen is estimated at about 14 feet. This mollusk shell once lived in an ancient ocean, located over what...
...Science stagnates the individual," stated Lorenzen in the opening speech for the affirmative. "It impairs his initiative, his judgement. If we continue to stress the importance of science, man will no longer be man, but a psychological creation, clad in the skin of a hairless, limbless, brainless mollusk, with one abnormal ear glued continually to a telephone receiver attached to a storage 'think-tank...
...venture to say to my Northern brethren that consolidation was patterned after the mollusk or the oyster, while Federal union was fashioned after the majestic lion or the Heaven-soaring and imperial eagle...