Word: camphor
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Only the Meiji would know. Firm in this conviction a spruce file of puzzled Japanese Army officers rode out from Tokyo one dawn last week to a pungent park of pine and camphor trees. They crossed a gurgling brook, entered a spotlessly clean quadrangle and faced with awe the Meiji Shrine, an unpainted wooden building, austere, impressive and, to Japanese, sublime...
Artificial Camphor. The U. S. annually imports ten million pounds of camphor for manufacture of laminated safety glass, explosives, celluloid, lacquers, motion picture films and medicines. Half of the imported camphor is synthesized from U. S. turpentine that has been shipped abroad. New York University's Professor John Joseph Ritter offered a cheap, comparatively simple artificial camphor right in the U. S. from home-produced materials. He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur...
...opening last week, two years after the building was completed, of the Museum of the City of New York. Present in the flesh were ancient Van Rensselaers with bonnets tied under their chins, Schuylers leaning on ivory-headed canes, minor de Peysters covered with bugles and smelling of camphor. There were old gentlemen with blue-veined noses and square-crowned derbies, middle-aged ladies who had not been seen in public since the last Paderewski recital, clergymen, school teachers. It was strictly a New York party, but it had national significance. Historical societies abound in the land, but this...
...information that pebbles are essential to their digestion. When approached or frightened during such relaxation he will make off at great speed. Most of the feathers now being used are from the harvest of bygone years, for the feathers will keep from 30 to 40 years if placed in camphor...
Although much has been done to industrialize Formosa, it is still predominantly agricultural, exports much rice, sugar, and tea (Oolong type especially). It is also famed for its camphor production, its headhunters. These live in the mountains, have made sorties against their civilized neighbors as recently as last April 1. But now a long electrified wire fence keeps Formosa's honest millions safe from the unruly tribes...