Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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William Abbott Herdman; delegate from the University of Liverpool; a great authority on marine biology, who has dredged the floor of the ocean, and learned the secrets of the oyster and the pearl...
...contest with man and taming of nature, as well as the social equality which, in this country, requires the professional man to "kow-two" to no one. You lack neither stimulus nor opportunity; you are radiant with the success of modern materialism. The world is the mining engineer's oyster, to be opened with the weapon of skilled intelligence...
...HARVARD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. "The Increase of Pests in the Absence of Natural Opponents," Mr. J. H. Robinette. "Zealand Notch," Mr. R. E. Blakeslee. "Among the Oyster Islands of the Gulf," Mr. C. W. Wickersham. Training Table Room, Harvard Union...
...ballet, which was given in the entre-acts, opens with a scene showing the coast guard walking his beat. As soon as he has gone by, appear the five Nereides in a dance. They are followed by Amphitrite who, issuing from the sea, throws on the sand an oyster, during a graceful dance. The first part ends with the five Nereides and Amphitrite dancing. In the second part appear the Travelers, who wander along the shore and discover the oyster. The sea nymphs and Amphitrite watch them from the background. The Travelers quarrel over the oyster and are surprised...
Geological Conference. Papers: Notes on a Carboniferous Oyster. Professor R. T. Jackson.--Certain Hanging Valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Profsssor Shaler. -- Reviews and Notes. Rotch Building...