Word: paleontologist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paleontologist Earl Packard, professor emeritus of Oregon State College, who now lives in Palo Alto, was called in to identify the ancient bones. He knew at once that he was looking at something special. "I've waited 40 years for a find like this," he said...
During his lifetime (1881-1955), Jesuit Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin achieved a professional reputation as a distinguished paleontologist and one of the discoverers of Peking man. Since the publication of The Phenomenon of Man (TIME, Dec. 14, 1959), its author has emerged as one of the century's most remarkably prophetic thinkers, an Aquinas of the atomic era. For Teilhard was not only a scientist who studied the world's past. He was also a philosopher-mystic who saw man evolving toward the ultimate encounter with what Teilhard, ever groping for new ways to express ancient truth...
...great Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was forbidden to publish his nontechnical works during his lifetime. In recent years, three of France's finest theologians-Jesuit Henri de Lubac and Dominicans Yves Congar and M. D. Chenu-have been temporarily relieved from teaching posts and forced to submit their writings to the Holy Office for special censorship. Last year Austrian Jesuit Karl Rahner was required to submit all future writings to his superior in Rome for clearance, a restriction since lifted; Father John Courtney Murray of the U.S. was advised not to write any more on his special...
...reptiles at the American Museum of Natural History, a spirited scientist who spent a lifetime gathering more relics of extinct prehistoric monster life than any man before him. thereby earning the honorific title "Father of the Dinosaurs"; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Though he was known primarily as a paleontologist, one of Brown's most important works was the authentication of a group of stone arrowheads found in New Mexico that proved man has inhabited North America for 20,000 years, not merely 2,000 as scientists once believed...
...play extends to phonics, word games and Cuisenaire rods-a first-grade package. In second grade, having long since mastered multiplication, division and short essay writing, the kids read at fifth-grade level, pursue "the joy of discovery" in bright classrooms adorned with such helpful information as: "A paleontologist has to work very hard for the museum. He has to put dinosaur bones together. The hardest bones ever put together were Tyrannosaurus...