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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biology, discovered "the most perfect plant fossil over found," and in the trackless forests of the Pico del Yaque Mountains in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Phillip J. Darlington, assistant curator of insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, found many new species of insects, worms, and reptiles, hitherto unknown to science...
Among the species found which were previously entirely unknown, or had not been recorded in the Caribbean region, were black snails, Carabidae beetles, earthworms, locusts, a small rock lizard, a frog, and caterpillars...
...meet, there were no favorites, for a 14-year-old tyro, shooting from the 16-yd. line, had as good a chance to win as a top-flight marksman shooting from the 25-yd. line. Solidest tradition of the 39-year-old trapshooting classic is that an "unknown from nowhere" usually wins, and the same person never wins twice...
...something of a mystery, and hence was given the algebraic name of A. Other vitamins followed in rapid succession: six Bs, one C, eight Ds, one E, three Hs, one K. There is even talk of a vitamin P, and scientists have been so busy tracking down the unknown properties of vitamins that they have had no time to agree on more significant, logical names. Certain it is that vitamin discovery and, more recently, the artificial production of vitamins have opened an entirely new field of therapy. Latest news from the vitamin field...
...prattled to newshawks about her madcap life. Highlights: 1) a prison term for the shooting of a French doctor's wife; 2) a romance with the late mysterious octogenarian Munitions Maker Sir Basil ("Arms and the Men") Zaharoff; 3) a trip to British Honduras to call on an unknown man who had written her a letter. Explained Lady Owen: "I was very eccentric...