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...years ago a Toronto writer faked a story of the discovery by two Swedish scientists, Drs. Smierkase and Butterbrod, of the skeleton of a fish large enough to have swallowed Jonah. Toronto papers refused the yarn, for "Smierkase" and "Butterbrod" too transparently mean "soft cheese" and "butter bread." However, at the Fundamentalist convention, the clever writer found his opportunity, sent the manuscript without comment to a Dr. Brown, who based his main argument for the authenticity of the Jonah story on this "discovery." Toronto papers this time reported Dr. Brown and his "proof." Then they were told of the hoax...
...skeleton extension of the tutorial system, the Summer School is now brought into closer connection with the College. With this adjustment, the instruction of the vacation period settles more firmly into its place in the Harvard educational system...
...Denmark, diggers in a Slesvig bog, struck whale bones six feet down, unearthed the skeleton of a prehistoric species of leviathan which experts suggested might have been swept to his grave, 24 miles inland, by a tidal wave...
...make a skeleton of college...
...Paris, journalistic sarcasm was drowned in archeologists' enthusiasm when Digger de Prorok laid his finds before the government. Professor Stephane Gsell of the College of France demonstrated before the Institute of France that Tin Hinan, whose tomb and skeleton he was inclined to believe had been found, could not have lived earlier than 1,000 B. C.; probably about 900 B. C. Others aimed their guesses at her actual date between those two centuries...