Word: paleontologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charioteer. Alfred Barr was then 27, an associate professor of fine arts at Wellesley. Born in Detroit, brought up in Baltimore, son of a Presbyterian minister who had a taste for medieval art, he had majored in science until his last year at Princeton, intending to become a paleontologist. This training served him well when he came to deal with the data of Dada. After graduate work in art and archeology, he taught at Vassar, Harvard, Princeton, and launched at Wellesley in 1926 an ambitious course in modern art. It involved "driving a seven-or eight-wheeled chariot," handling...
...anthropological quarters it was feared that Dr. Broom might be a trifle overenthusiastic. Dr. Broom, however, invited Dr. William King Gregory to come over to South Africa, examine his skulls, express any opinion he liked. Dr. Gregory (of Columbia University, Manhattan's American Museum) is a top-notch paleontologist who knows as much about the evolution of primate teeth as anyone alive. He went, looked. By last week he was back and perfectly willing to add his opinion that the Broom finds are of "exceptional importance...
Last week a paleontologist announced that he had found the answer to a question which has preoccupied paleontologists for years: could the sauropod walk out of water? It is fairly well established that the sauropods, big vegetarian dinosaurs weighing up to 40 tons, were dependent for their existence on bodies of water in which grew vast quantities of water plants. Some fossil men have also supposed that, on account of their great weight, the monsters had to stay in the water all the time for its buoying effect-that on dry land their legs would buckle. Others disagreed...
...Paleontologist Roland T. Bird of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History found a sauropod trail near Glen Rose, Texas. Taking twelve feet at a stride, the creature had ambled down to the edge of an ancient river, crossed it, walked out on the other side. Thus it was clear that the sauropods could travel overland, for short distances at least. But the feet of Dr. Bird's great sauropod sank into the soggy ground two feet at every step...
...Choukoutien turned up an upper jawbone of Peking Man, containing six teeth. This was the first upper jawbone, although several skulls and lower jawbones had been found before. The new find was got safely to a museum in spite of the fighting. Dr. Ralph Works Chaney, University of California paleontologist who had concluded from ancient garbage in the cave that Peking Man ate hackberries, now considered the evidence of upper and lower teeth together, decided therefrom that he was a meat eater as well as a consumer of hackberries...