Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Temperate Water. Dr. Newell went to Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean rocks by U.S. and Peruvian assistants...
...Amazon sea apparently extended from eastern Brazil to islands on the present site of the Andes. It was not a tropical sea, but temperate, since the animals that lived in it are characteristic of cool water. It must have extended without a break right past the equator and into the region of the present Mississippi Valley. In those .days the same shellfish lived in Peru and in Oklahoma...
...Newell (though glad to encourage his oil-company backers) was more excited about the theoretical aspects of his discovery. Rarely had paleontologists found a marine fauna that was practically identical on both sides of the equator. Obviously, he speculated, there was no tropical belt of warm water in those days to check the spread of temperate sea life...
Michigan's shrewd Coach Fritz Crisler has taken advantage of the unlimited substitution rule. In the first four games of the season, Crisler's team used everyone but the water boy, and averaged 55 points a game...
...double up my fist and slug them so many times." What made life bearable for them was the generosity and courage of the Ugolini family, whose house they hid in-father, mother and two pretty daughters, Gina, 23, and Wally, 20. Gina and Wally brought the boys hot water, their meals, and the only English book they could find in the town (a well-thumbed copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin) and sometimes played cards with them in the evening. Chapp took a shine to blonde Wally, who was smart, and a year younger than he was. She called...