Word: silurian
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Proterozoic ? First shellfish and corals Cambrian Ordovician ? First fsh Silurian ? First land plants Devonian ? Tiktaalik ? First tetrapods Carboniferous ? First reptiles ? First mammal-like reptiles Permian Triassic ? First dinosaurs ? First mammals Jurassic ? First birds Cretaceous ? First flowering plants Cenozoic ? First horses...
...Faces of 1952 is a crisp, cheerfully intimate revue that should somehow be funnier. The most professional of Leonard Silurian's various New Faces, it looks trim and moves fast. It is full of sophisticated ideas to be sung or spoken; it exhibits a bunch of likable new faces, a few of which should catch the spotlight more & more. But the product is not quite up to the packaging. For all its expensive gloss, its Raoul Pene du Bois sets and John Murray Anderson staging, it never really bankrolls 'em in the aisles...
...only bad news from the Pacific last week was the soup-fin shark shortage. After scouring the oceans since the Silurian Age, sharks seemed to be disappearing from the West Coast. The 400 to 500 West Coast fishing boats searching for soup-fin sharks from Seattle to Mexico roamed as far afield as the Navy would let them. But their winter haul (worth over $6 million in a good year) was less than 50% of 1943's catch...
...little group crossed two backyards, trampled three flower beds and thus reached the coast of Swampscott. They proceded to a large red the rock. Then each individual began to hack away the rock with his hammer. The Leader picked up a small piece; "Silurian amygdaloidal pyroxenite." And the group wrote in their little black books. This ritual they repeated at several other large rocks. Many slippery smaller rocks were in their way. And the sea burst its spray upon them. They all got their feet wet. And when they reached a very high point on the coast, one slipped...
...combat with giant squids have been found on the hides of whales. Largest of known insects, extinct for 170,000,000 years, had a wingspread of 2 ft. 6 in. Largest of known arthropods was Pterygotus, 9 ft. long, which faintly resembled a lobster and roamed on the Silurian sea bottoms of 350,000,000 years...