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The be-tailed funny mag President thought he was taking Marjorie Woodworth to the 'Poon dance, but others believe he was disappointed to realize he had actually dated this 'obtuse individual" who has tried to Hollywoodize every possible angle of the Battle of the Ibis. Marjorie, they said, was merely...
Systematic study of rings, so that old wood can be dated by its growth patterns, was begun in 1904 by Astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass of the University of Arizona, who was interested in solar activity. Douglass became able to look at a pine ladder or rafter from a prehistoric Indian...
But the conflagration got out of control and was licking hungrily at the tail-feathers of one of the stuffed pelicans that haunt the curie grotto. In the nick of time Coles Phinizy '42, head comie, cantered to the rescue armed with an old pewter tankard (dated at least 1639...
Comparing blood types of American aborigines 1) with each other, 2) with contemporary and theoretical ancient Asiatics, he decided that Tierra del Fuegians came from Asia earliest, Eskimos last, that all the Indians in the Americas can roughly be dated by their distribution from south to north, that is, by...
First letter (from Pollock to Holmes) is dated 1874; the last (from Holmes to Pollock) is dated 1932. What they wrote in between fills two volumes of 275 and 309 pages, superbly edited by Biographer Mark DeWolfe Howe. When they began writing each other letters, Holmes was 33, Pollock, 28...