Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most brilliant men ever graduated from Princeton (1903), Paxton Hibben had successive exciting careers in diplomacy, politics, war correspondence, the A. E. F., post-War famine relief, authorship (Constantine I and the Greek People, Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait, An American Report on the Russian Famine). A lifelong liberal, he requested that his ashes be taken to Moscow. Following his death in Manhattan in 1928, they were...
...invaded the park, cut loose more than a ton of track-bearing sandstone with pneumatic drills, carted the precious material away. The police were without a clue. Mr. Pellissier hired a watchman. At week's end the vandals had not offered their booty to the most likely buyer-Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester...
...creature thus celebrated was a 60-ft. plant-feeding dinosaur, tentatively named Atlantosaurus montanus, discovered in Colorado. The verses were composed by an author-traveler named Frank Cowan of Greensburg, Pa., published in Vol. III, No. 1, of Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, dated Jan. 1, 1884. The same issue contained a sketch of a brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human...
Last week Ward's shipped a big consignment (value undisclosed) of rocks, fossils, insects, snake skulls, animal and human skeletons to the Exposition Nacional de 1936 at Barranquilla, Colombia. Last week also, with hundreds of small orders for fossils and other material coming in from school children the world over, Ward's officials were basking in the knowledge that the establishment would show a year-end profit for the first time in its 74-year history. University of Rochester alumni were apprised of the present doings of Ward's in the current issue of the Rochester Alumni...
Henry Augustus Ward was a zestful young scholar who studied at Williams and under the late great Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, at Cambridge. He later attended the School of Mines at the University of Paris, paying his expenses by collecting and selling European fossils. In 1861, aged 27, he became a professor of natural science at the University of Rochester. He assembled a group of skilled preparators which, at one time or another, included Carl Akeley, Charles Livingston Bull, William T. Hornaday, Frederic Lucas. He sold a $20,000 collection of fossils to the university, but went ahead with...