Word: origin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...S.U.I. survived. Historian Benjamin Shambaugh helped make the entire state history-conscious; Paleontologist Samuel Calvin became the ranking U.S. authority on the Pleistocene age of North America; bearded Thomas H. Macbride became the "Father of Iowa Conservation"; and Geologist Bohumil Shimek won international fame for his theory on the origin of loess (loam) fossils...
...balloons; at 70,000 ft. the rockets, loaded with instruments, were shot another 280,000 ft. higher, where the particles were encountered. The Navy's find supports the results of a similar experiment last year, but the Navy has yet to pin down and identify the nature and origin of the particles...
...constitution of the 27,000-member American Newspaper Guild, C.I.O., provides that no one shall be barred from guild membership "by reason of age, sex, race, national origin, religious or political conviction." That provision has always prevented the guild from slamming the door on Communist members. Last week at its annual convention in Los Angeles, the guild passed a resolution to amend its constitution, barring from membership "any proven or admitted member of the Communist Party." Explained Guild President Joseph F. Collis: "Membership in the Communist Party represents more than a political conviction and is in fact participation...
...Indian described the origin of the Native American Church (about 65,000 members). Last week the N.A.C. met near Tama, Iowa for its tenth annual convention, worried that white men and some of their fellow Indians are trying to take the gift of peyote away from them...
...Black. Next night there was another big concert in the Casino with a few other name combos (e.g., Pianists George Shearing, Erroll Garner, Lennie Tristano) plus informal sessions that lasted till dawn. In the afternoon a slim crowd of cats had attended a forum about the origin and meaning of jazz. But the meaning of the festival itself seemed to be that jazz-whether Dixieland, bop or "modern"-more than ever has America's ear. The festival wound up tidily in the black...