Parrington

[ par-ing-tuhn ]

noun

1. Vernon Louis, 1871–1929, U.S. literary historian and critic.

Example Sentences

However relations soured after Professor Parrington's team seemingly took four tons of clay rich in fossils that Professor Kermack had collected from quarries in South Wales.

From Science Daily

"Parrington meanwhile said that the pile of mud had been left to rot and should be available for study and he had done the right thing in sharing it with his students."

From Science Daily

However, a German palaeontologist Walter G Kühne, a brilliant fossil finder, discovered many new fossil localities in the 1940s and 1950s and these provided the great horde of fossils which was the basis of the dispute between Kermack and Parrington.

From Science Daily

"He had apparently left a pile of four tons of clay with fossils at one of the quarries, and Parrington's team came down with a truck in 1966 and took most of it back to Cambridge."

From Science Daily

Hotter, drier conditions make fires far more dangerous, according to Copernicus senior scientist Mark Parrington.

From Reuters