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...amateur archaeologist ever since he was a boy in the Ozarks, 69-year-old Digger Hancock showed his visitor an array of calcified nuts, leaves and bone fragments. Paleontologist Simpson was fascinated by a giant (450 lbs.), two-tusked hunk of elephant skull which the ex-mailman had dug up twelve years before. Hancock thought he had found the remains of a Tetrabelodon, an early elephant that had roamed the Northwest during the Pliocene period, some 5,000,000 years earlier. Cautiously, Expert Simpson disagreed. To him, the jawbone looked as if it belonged to a Miocene mastodon, the elephant...
...immediately gave a standing order for a surprise egg each Easter. When his son Nicholas II came to the throne, the order was doubled: one egg for the Czarina, one for the aging Dowager Empress. The results: some 55 exquisite imperial eggs-plus scores of lesser eggs and an array of magnificent necklaces, enameled clocks and jewel-studded cigarette cases that lifted the House of Fabergé to the pinnacle of Europe's jewelry craft, and brought its master a reputation second only to that of Benvenuto Cellini...
...Here," the doctor promised as he flicked away the follicle, "we will restore your weakened hair roots, and your hair." "Are you sure?" I asked. "Certainly," he said. "The treatments will clean our the Sibborea, while the $20 home set--he indicated the tricolored array of bottles--will get rid of the germs." "How much for the treatments?" I asked. "Two hundred dollars," he said easily...
...array of dug-in ticks can kill a jack rabbit by drinking nearly all of its blood...
...course is not done. Instead, Freshmen rush through the themes in a day or so often juggling two at a time. The training in good research and careful exposition that should come with papers is too often sacrificed to the exigencies of time--the golden shovel replacing the imposing array of facts. Thus, although this year's freshman is writing more than past first year groups, his superiority in expressing ideas is questionable...