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...musk ox stands 5 ft. tall at the shoulder, has a broad heavy head, large curved horns, can live on Arctic vegetation which would starve a reindeer. Because of their hardy qualities, attempts were made two years ago to domesticate them for use as Arctic cows. Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, leader of the Northeast Greenland Expedition, has two tame musk ox mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches...
...Butt letters brim with fascinating Washington chitchat, never mean, never bitter, which brings Taft more to life than any formal biography. Examples: 1) the cow Mrs. Taft insisted on buying for the White House household; 2) the $5,000 the Tafts had saved on entering the White House and the $80,000 they had after two years; 3) "Little Charlie [the President's son] is a great bookworm and spends most of his time curled up on a sofa reading. . . . On inauguration day he took to the Senate Treasure Island - to read, he said, in case his father...
Said Professor Albert Einstein in a speech with which he opened the seventh German radio exhibition in Berlin: "One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches...
Editor Gene Howe of the Amarillo, Tex. News-Globe, ambitious son of famed Editor Ed ("Sage of Potato Hill") Howe of the Atchison, Kan. Globe (retired 1927), has made himself widely known as a rambunctious cow-&-oil town journalist...
Will James has also written and illustrated: Sand, Cow Country, Smoky, The Drifting Cowboy, Cowboys, North and South...