Word: paleontologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That single archaic skull and the commingled bones of the ten bodies and their limbs, all fossilized, scientific diggers recently dug up, a Peiping despatch reported last week. Actual finder was Pei Wenchung, Chinese archeologist, in the party of Dr. Davidson Black, Canadian paleontologist. The find is undoubtedly the most important archeological discovery of the year. It provides one complete and nine nearly complete skeletons of the "Peking man," pithecanthropus erectus, whose vestiges heretofore have consisted of but a skull top, a leg bone, a few teeth...
John Campbell Merriam, 59, paleontologist, educator, has been president of the Carnegie Institution since 1920 and administrator of its 13 subsidiary bodies of scientific research. He is a veritable tycoon. But where most tycoons are acquisitive of fortunes, he is a dispenser...
...Harbury, England, is a limestone quarry which has served as a tomb for at least two denizens of primeval seas. Last February the fossil remains of a mammoth reptile were found there. Last week many a paleontologist hastened to Harbury to see another monstrous skeleton which had just been unearthed at only 300 yards distance from the first discovery...
Last week Paleontologist Walter Granger motored 100 miles to a telegraph post to tell civilization that Leader Andrews had been shot in the leg but that his wound was not serious. The gun was his own, accidentally discharged during an antelope hunt; the leg was his own, accidentally in the way. It is probable that Antelope-Hunter Andrews quoted Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's famed remark, as he has done before: "Adventures are a mark of incompetence...
Authorities at the American Museum of Natural History, last week, candidly stated that in one particular they had been wrong, and the late William Jennings Bryan and his Fundamentalist disciples right. The particular was an old tooth, found five years ago by Paleontologist Harold Cook, in an ancient Nebraska river...