Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Daly's thesis, thus briefly summarized, is a synthesis of the cosmogony of Jeans and Jeffreys, the Wegener-Taylor hypothesis of drifting continents, and his own ideas concerning mountain-building and the origin of igenous rocks. No intelligent verdict concerning its accuracy can be made until the many speculations on which it is frankly based have been properly evaluated and adequately tested. The book now in hand is a transcript of a course of semi-popular lectures delivered by its author to a non-technically-trained audience at the Lowell Institute, and it therefore does not contain full statements...
...Morris, the man in the red sweater, well known to Harvard football fans for his gymnastic activities as announcer at Soldiers Field during the fall, explained to a Crimson reporter yesterday, the origin of the signals. Mr. Morris has spent 20 years in perfecting and developing his system from a combination of Army and Navy signals and the gestures used on the Stock exchange...
...voice has never been cultivated, it just growed," asserted Mr. Morris modestly when queried as to the origin and development of his stentorian tones. "I find that the Stadium is hardest on my voice. If have to make more than six or seven announcements during a game, I'm apt to be a bit hoarse in the evening. The Arena, however, has the worst acoustics. During five years, I've never been able to find a spot from which I can reach the entire audience...
...spongy stone lump of volcanic origin...
...coats of chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization from the Great Lakes and Mississippi Basin in the 12th Century. (The indomitable Norse first began coming to America in the 11th Century.) 4) Presence in the Mound-builder country of earthworks identical with mounds of known Norse origin in Scandinavia and Scotland. (Mr. Brewer did not suggest that the Moundbuilders had not followed their burial customs for centuries before the Norse came; he simply suggested that Norsemen in America might have followed their own burial customs also...