Word: specimen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mere enumeration of the different minerals but feebly describes their outstanding quality," said Professor Charles Palache, curator of the Museum, "Of the nine cuprates (oxide of copper), one is probably the finest specimen of this mineral ever found anywhere...
...neck vertebrae were missing. When high & low search failed to disclose them, it was decided to remove the neck from another dinosaur which lay nearby and which seemed to be of the same species. The neck and the neckless skeleton were shipped back to Washington, mounted as a single specimen...
While all concerned pondered the fact that the skeleton was scattered like the pages of a Gutenberg Bible-the neck in Washington, the tail in Pittsburgh, the head and body in Utah-the Smithsonian made the cataclysmic discovery that its neck and the rest of its specimen were of two different species...
Members of the Corporation are still purring over the rare specimen, known as Conant, that they bagged two years ago. While his habitat turned out to be the Converse Laboratory, he is quite human and promises to make as good a President as Harvard has ever had. Evidently, this in the last expedition which has been planned for the next decade or so; if one excepts an occasional safari to keep in trim, such as an honorary degree to another Al Smith...
Four years ago Mr. Woollcott discussed that story, "the perfect specimen of folk lore," with English Journalist Valentine Williams, who testified to its recurrence in English, French and German newspapers about every six-months for the past 25 years. Nearly always it is issued from, some remote town in Eastern Europe. Two weeks after the Woollcott-Williams conversation, the same old story landed on the front page of the New York Herald Tribune as an Associated Press dispatch from Warsaw, with the headline: PARENTS KILL RICH SON POSING AS A STRANGER Pole, Home After 18 Years...