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...cretaceous formation near Red Lodge in southern Montana, found some old broken eggs. They thought the eggs might have been laid 50 million years ago by an awkward dinosaur. The fragments were black, rough, pitted. Near the locality, in the same geological formation, the scientists were surprised to unearth the tooth of a mammal. Mammals are seldom found in cretaceous formations. Other dinosaur eggs known today were found seven years ago by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in Mongolia. His eggs were estimated to be several million years older than Dr. Jepsen's. The only other eggs were unearthed years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...Three Live Ghosts", is one of the best balanced productions made since the advent of the talkie. By its very nature it makes no claim to being a great artistic endeavor, but it is almost perfect as entertainment. Movie directors would be doing a real service if they would unearth more pictures of the type of "Three Live Ghosts". Like good modern novels, they are very pleasant pastimes, even though we hesitate to claim for them immortality. Unfortunately they are just as rare as good modern novels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO GOOD PICTURES AT THE UNIVERSITY | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: I like you fine! Every Saturday night I sit up till 12 o'clock to read you through. Tonight I am pausing at page 10, to ask if somebody, somewhere, can't unearth a few new stories about Mrs. Hoover? These that have been served up since before the campaign began are getting somewhat antiquated?awfully so! The Carboniferous rock age story, the Boxer bullets, the £70 purse tossed in London, the drives across from Iowa to California and back, the no jewelry and always low heels, were all good in their day; but now that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Long rows have featured the intensive practice sessions of the University crews during the last few days in their preparation for the four mile grind with Yale one month from today. With B. J. Harrison '29 pulling a stroke oar in the attempt to unearth a pace setter, the crews are gradually accustoming theemselves to his rythm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONG PADDLES FEATURE WORKOUTS OF OARSMEN | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

...Ford Sinclair's oily bonds to Mr. Mellon and Mr. Butler, in return for cash for the G. O. P. deficit. They had declined. But in the four subsequent years, long after all knew of Sinclair's crockery and all during the Senate's efforts to unearth it, none of the trio had breathed a word of the sly Hays plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Fashions In Silence | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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