Word: origin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Geological Conference. Papers: On a New Discovery of Flying Reptiles from the Lias, Dr. C. R. Eastman; The Origin of the Arkansas Novaculites, Mr. L. S. Griswold. Geological Laboratory...
...Frothingham L. S., president of the Civil Service Reform Club, after briefly explaining the origin and purposes of the club, introduced Mr. Roosevelt...
...have been raised to this explanation by Dr. Martineau, chiefly on the ground that it is not derived from our own self-consciousness; but observations of death in others must precede its experience by ourselves. At any rate the present validity of the belief is not affected by its origin, or by the process of its historical evolution...
...University officials deprecate the origin of such a rumor and authorize us to say that it has no foundation in fact...
...Great Lakes. Of the latter branch were the mound builders of Ohio. The people of the northwest give indications of Asiatic admixture, and those of the southern migration are somewhat like the inhabitants of the south Pacific islands. These facts give some strength to the theories of the origin of the earliest tribes. On the eastern coast on the other hand, in the islands of the Caribbean Sea there are indications that the inhabitants came originally across the Atlantic from Northern Africa...