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...American Museum of Natural Histoiy. Mr. Thomson was confronted with the toughest extraction job of his life. Cautiously he attacked the sandstone with needle-like awls, sharpened under a microscope that magnified them to the size of broom handles. After long months of picking and scratching, the dismembered skeleton was finally free of its matrix and the preparator sent it back to Dr. Jepsen...
...those of a leaping primate the size of a rat and structurally akin to the modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason for such miraculous preservation but he thought it possible that the little...
...first serious campaign for re-election since he went to the Senate 17 years ago. Reason: Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo. Down & Outer Up. During his second term as Governor of Mississippi (1928-32) blatant Theodore Bilbo kept in his office an almost life size picture of a skeleton with "Mike Conner" inscribed across the skull. At the end of that term, Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner, a bright young Bilbo protege who had broken away, defeated Bilbo's candidate for Governor, ousted the Bilbo faction. When "The Man" Bilbo turned up in Washington three years ago and asked...
...Rome, Moscow and Berlin. . . ." Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, president of the World Baptist Alliance, countered with a thundering speech on missions : "If we Baptists sit smugly aside and prate about our orthodoxy while this mission work goes unheeded, then I say orthodoxy is a grinning, chattering skeleton!" Of Dr. Kagawa, after that mild little man had shouted one of his high-pitched, unintelligible addresses into a microphone, onetime President Monroe Elmon Dodd of the Southern Baptist Convention exclaimed: "I can only say I wish we were as good Christians as this man." Finally Northern President Franklin...
...thirds complete, the Bay Bridge is a serpentine skeleton of steel more than four miles long. Two suspended spans, each almost a mile long and bigger than Manhattan's famed George Washington Bridge across the Hudson, reach from San Francisco to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island, about midway across the Bay. At Yerba Buena the roadway dives through a rocky hill for 540 ft. From Yerba Buena to Oakland for two and a half miles stretch one huge cantilever bridge, five smaller spans, then a long trestle. It was the centre of the 11,400-ft. cantilever which was joined...