Word: artic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teeth of the Eskimos of Smith Sound, "the meat eaters," who live the farthest north of any human beings. He did this at the request of Dr. Fernald, who desired the models for the Dental School Museum. The impressions were made on one of MacMillan's most recent Artic expeditions. From the impressions, models have been constructed. Commander MacMillan said that "the Smith Sound Eskimos average about four ounces of vegetable matter each year per capita...
LORD OF THE WILD, by Samuel Scoville Jr. (William Morrow & Co., $2.00), contains 13 stories of wild animals in their native haunts; the stories of fennecs in South Africa, grey wolves of the Artic, and cobras in India. Mr. Scoville, the author of three other books on wild life, and a field naturalist of long standing, evidently knows his subject well, and has the imagination and ability to give the reader an extremely vivid picture of the scene he portrays...
...been the directing force behind the latest international complication. The last that the outside world has seen of him was immediately after his evaenation of Albania with a colene of ministers and as the dispach said "a lot of money" He soon took up quarters in Vienna in an artic where he continued his work of translating classics into Albanian Anyone acquainted with the difficulty involved in such a work will appreciate the task he has undertaken. He had already translated Longfellow and Shakespeare into the native dialect and working on others English classics...
Jordan and Churchill will make it their purpose to clear up several disagreements as to the nature of the fish of the region. It is a matter for debate whether they are Artic sea trout or salmon. It is possible that as the water grows colder the species change and blend together. This is important from the commercial point of view as the supply of salmon farther south is rapidly dwindling...