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...become convinced that the forecaster's heyday is the first two weeks in October. Most forecasters, that is. But not I. "The blacker the cloud, the silverer the lining," was graven on the Forecast coat of arms centuries ago when the first Baron Forecast was Lord High Grave-Digger in Waiting for the wives of Henry VIII. And that's the way I am. So paste these in you hat until you read your Sunday papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MID-OCTOBER TILTS MAKE JOE'S FORECASTING HARD | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

...Orient was not, until last week, particularly fruitful. The broils of bellicose Chinamen disrupted Digger Roy Chapman Andrews' plans for another (fourth) season of fossil collecting in the Gobi desert, costing him his $225,000 camel train. He returned to the U. S. last fortnight. Two Russian expeditions-Colonel Kozlov's in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and Professor Mechaninov's nearer home at Baku in Azer-baijan-met with success. Colonel Kozlov found "unquestionable traces" of an ice sheet having covered the Khangais. (This data may prove of importance to Digger Andrews and his paleontologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Late in August, Digger Gilbert T. Brewer returned from a trip down the Mississippi Valley, to Mexico City and South America via Panama, with extensive evidence of Norse expeditions having penetrated this continent thoroughly in pre-Columbus days. Some of Mr. Brewer's evidence: 1) Indian legends of huge serpents appearing on Lake Ontario. (Norse war galleys had low hulls, dragon prows, the sides hung with shields, like scales. 2) An Indian legend of a chief battling a serpent, slaying him and wearing his skin. (The Norsemen wore coats of chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Digger Brewer's discoveries had led him to a striking conclusion: in their flight from the Norsemen, the Moundbuilders pressed south into Mexico, where they were later known as the Aztecs. He cited as evidence of a Norse influence upon the Aztecs the latter's god Queztal or Votan, "a white god . . . from the east across the sea," who may have been the Odin or Wodin of the Norsemen; also, human sacrifice among the Aztecs (not practiced by pre-Norse Moundbuilders). Finally, Mr. Brewer has completed the interpretation of the famed Aztec Calendar Stone, partially interpreted by Professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...this quiet account* of his doings, Digger Andrews makes plain what a sizable undertaking it has been. Other scientists pooh-poohed the notion of fossils lying in one of the globe's most desolate wildernesses. Travelers said that no fleet of Dodge, or any other, cars could go where even camels limp. China teemed with soldiers and brigands. Drought and sand storms were growing yearly worse. . . . But the Dodges pulled again. Urga was reached and passed again and again. Heady preparations, an invaluable caravan chief and keen diplomacy made life not merely possible but enjoyable. Good humor, good sportsmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

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