Word: osborn
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...following men must have their pictures taken at Notman's today, or be excluded from the Album: J. H. Meigs, D. D. Osborn, J. N. Panorian, J. H. Paub, J. A. Reilly, B. Rowland Jr., H. W. Rowley Jr., W. S. Seidel, David Sher, D. L. Smith, R. W. Snyder, W. H. Snyder, F. E. A. B. Smith, W. L. Stevens Jr., H. L. Titus, P. W. Vaphiades, L. A. Walsh, W. V. Young, A. Zinsser, S. F. Tyler, H. S. Mekeel, C. G. Lumaghi and E. A. Rieckman...
...RISES TO PARNASSUS-Henry Fairfield Osborn-Princeton University Press ($2.50). Ages and ages ago, but eons after primates became distinctly monkeys, apes and men, mankind began his fumbling rise to earthly supremacy. The start was probably on the plateaus of Central Asia and the first men were certainly runners. They hunted to live. Descendants of theirs who wandered into other plateaus of the continents continued the hunting life. Others traveled into forests and became climbers, others into level lowlands and became squatting farmers; others into seashores and became aquatic. Millennia spent in the same sort of places developed distinct types...
Chase Salmon Osborn used to be not Georgia's but Michigan's Governor, in 1911 and 1912. He rose to that office from the comparatively humble positions of postmaster at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. (1889-93), then Michigan game & fish warden, then commissioner of railroads, then regent of the University of Michigan. What made Michiganders admire him much was his great feat as a mining engineer-the discovery of the Moose Mountain iron range in Canada. Brawny, brainy, he made a good public servant-Georgia's claim to Chase Salmon Osborn is that he usually winters near...
...First published in 1924. Dr. Chase Salmon Osborn is not to be confused with Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History...
President Henry Fairfield Osborn and other specialists at the museum examined the tooth with naked eye, microscope and x-rays. It belonged, they decided, to a manlike beast and seemed the first indication that such animals had once existed in what is now the U. S. They called the specimen Hesperopithecus ("evening ape") haroldcookii. Fundamentalists scoffed at this as at all other evolutionary data...