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...western brim of the greatest oceanic basin. Obscure and insignificant as I am, I am doubtless conveying what practically every one of the 16 million Filipinos are saying, and would say, if allowed the chance to explode their hearts' content. These 16 million suntanned Brownies are not a specimen of a species hypothesized to be devoid of the psychology-discovered instinct of self-preservation. And in this world of Blitzkriegs; of Hurricanes and Spitfires and Junkers, and Panzer Divisions; of $5,000,000,000 defense programs and ''hemispheric defense"; of "China Incidents," and of "New Orders...
Harvard has another "living fossil" and it's not a member of the faculty. A report published by Harold J. Coolidge, Assistant Curator of Mammals, in the Harvard Museum Monograph today, indicates that the specimen of a wild ox or kouprey presented to the museum last year is an entirely new genus close to the ancestral line of modern domestic cattle...
Dean Chase's warning followed closely upon an attempt by a tutoring organization to circularize its specimen maps among History 1 students as they came from their lecture in the New Lecture Hall yesterday...
...bearing that when he looks around he moves the whole top half of his body. He is also exceedingly kindly, and because of his charitable efforts on behalf of two unprofitable British professions has been nicknamed "Prince of Beggars" and "The Midwife's Friend." He is an excellent specimen - almost too good, in days when figureheads are taken to sum up their societies-out of the top drawer of British nobility. A huntin', shootin', fishin' county gentleman, he is not unlike Cartoonist David Low's ultra-ultra-conservative Colonel Blimp. When he left London...
...above sea level; Longs Peak rises in its square-topped majesty 5,255 ft. above that; and north and south the peaks of the Rockies repeat like mirrored reflections in the depthless blue air -the Never Summer Range on the Continental Divide, Mount Alice and Flattop, Estes Cone and Specimen, Thunderbolt, Mummy, Sawtooth and Nimbus-some of the more than 10,000-ft. mountains that lie within the Park and give it the peaceful air of being the top of the world...