Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while the would-be zoologist deployed bumper stickers and plotted campus rallies this week, the man he calls "a joke" has received nearly unanimous backing for his traditional right-wing views from all segments of the Republican party. And above all, the GOP appears determined to remain just that, the Grand Old Party--no realignments, no changes...
...also bestowed degrees on three well-known American academics, including zoologist Ernst Mayr, historian John M. Blum '43, and sociologist Robert Merton; and two British scholars, economist Joan V. Robinson and legalist Herbert L.A. Hart...
...Field Doob '30 believes her experience at Radcliffe instilled in her an important need to accomplish "because I was in association with people who were ambitious or who had succeeded." Unlike many of her classmates, Doob continued on to graduate school. The daughter of a biologist and cousin of zoologist Howard Stabler, Doob was one of five women to enter the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in the fall of 1930. On a careful budget balanced by scholarships and part-time baby-sitting jobs, Doob and her husband Joseph L. Doob '30 managed to survive the Depression years...
...short to wield a heavy club effectively. For another million years or so, his brain was not developed enough to conceive of fashioning stone weapons. Yet despite the presence of far more powerful four-legged adversaries on the African savannas, he survived. Now a Dutch zoologist, Adriaan Kortlandt of the University of Amsterdam, has proposed an intriguing answer. In the current Journal of Human Evolution, he suggests that early man was able to use thorny branches to repel the most dangerous predators: large carnivorous cats...