Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This writer is at present at work on an original motion picture story, "First to Fight," based in part on the U. S. war with Tripoli and the capture of Derna, and covering the period up to and including the participation of Marines, "picked men, to lead the storming of Chapultepec under Major Twiggs and Captain McDonald Reynolds," at Mexico City in 1847; i.e., "From the Halls of Montexuma to the Shores of Tripoli...
...months of which were too rainy to allow digging, the men located the 175,000,000 year old fossil bed in the red clay footbills of the Brazilian Platean. It is believed to be the most significant American deposit yet found of the fauna of the Triassic period, critical in the development of the ancestors of the dinosaurs and mamals...
...consequence of this find paleontologists will be able to make their first detailed comparison of Triassic forms in this hemisphere with those in South Africa, where many deposits from this period abound. After preliminary study the experts have found similarities between the two, confirming other evidence of early transcontinental migrations...
...another mammal-like family, the herbivorous "two-tusker," or dicynodont, the Harvard party obtained a number of good skulls and skeletons. These peaceful lizards, six feet or so in length, were among the commonest reptiles in the Triassic period, but were rapidly killed off, probably by their meat-eating cynodont relatives and other carnivorous forms...
...interested audience was led last night on a detailed inspection tour of party politics as Murray Seasongood '00, former mayor of Cincinnati, talked informally on "Machine Politics and the Reformer" in Dunster House Common Room. Tracing the city from the 1884-1926 period, which Lincoln Steffins accurately depicted as "unbelievably corrupt," up to the present time, when it is generally conceded to be the "best governed city in the United States", Mr. Seasongood described the long struggle of the past twelve years as a constant warfare against party machinery and party patronage...