Word: plateaus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Harvard Observatory has operated a branch station at Arequipa, Peru, for the purpose of studying stars and other celestial objects that never rise above the horizons of Northern countries. However, as cloudy weather handicapped the observation from Peru for a large part of each year, the high plateaus of South Africa were found to be better for continued work the year round. The instruments from the Peruvian station are now being prepared for moving by Dr. John Paraskevopoulos, who has been in charge for the last four years. These include a photographic telescope with a double lens 24 inches...