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...conventionally educated New Englander the conception of a recent continental ice-sheet is familiar. This is supposed to have originated in the southwestern section of the Labrador Peninsula and to have swept south to Nova Scotia. Cape Cod, Long Island, northern Pennsylvania, and the Ohio valley; and recent studies, especially by Antevs, indicate that the front of this sheet began to rot approximately 25,000 years ago. As a natural outgrowth of this everyday conception, we are inclined to infer that all the region south of the entire Labrador Peninsula was similarly crossed and denuded by the last or Wisconsin...
...monograph on Mike may be considered the acme of obital biography, fit to rank with his monumental Coptic History of Elijah the Tish- bite. No more awful authority could be found for the statement that Mike "preferred sole to whiting, and whiting to haddock, and sardines to herrings; for cod he had no use whatever. He owed much to the three kind-hearted gatekeepers who cooked his food for him, and treated him as a man and a brother.'' One may assume that only the excessive modesty of Sir Wallis Budge-a sort of Lindbergh among Egyptologists-kept...
Irradiated cod-liver oil, found to be more effective than untreated cod-liver...
Synthetic milk made from soy beans, cane sugar, comstarch, cod-liver oil, calcium lactate, sodium chloride and cabbage water...
Chairs in Harvard dormitories fell over. Boston citizens were alarmed. Cape Cod sea captains left their pinochle, when the severest earthquake the east had felt for many years jarred seismographs from Halifax to Manhattan. Most noticeable in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, the brief temblor was not felt in Manhattan, everywhere did little damage...