Word: movius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with his less ebullient first cousin, Potter Palmer III, who is still happily married to his first & only wife, the beauteous Rose Saltonstall Movius of Boston...
Under the leadership of Dr. Hallam L. Movius '02 and Dr. Hellmut de Terra the expedition has discovered extinct fossils of the Himalayan ice age--a buffalo, a hippopotamus, and elephants...
...sponsors of the expedition are the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and Harvard's Peabody Museum. With the leaders go Hallam L. Movius, research associate in Anthropology, of the Peabody, and Mrs. Movius, though they do not sail until the S.S. Bremen leaves New York on Saturday...
While de Terra, leader of the expedition, concerns himself primarily with the geological sequences and stratigraphy, and Dr. Teilhard du Chardin with the palcontology, Movius' duties will be the excavation of the Pieistocone terraces and other deposits which may yield implements or other remains...
...County Londonderry, had learned to catch fish in such quantities that they and their families could not eat them all at once. Accordingly they set up what must have been an extremely malodorous fish-drying centre. This was excavated last season by a Harvard group under Hallam Leonard Movius Jr. About this time the Irish were learning from contact with the Mediterranean civilizations to build huge mausoleums. In County Sligo another Harvard party under Hugh O'Neill Hencken unearthed a mound of stone 180 ft. long, covering five burial chambers and enclosing a sort of courtyard where funerals were...