Word: eskimoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means of some 90 models of Eskimo teeth, Dr. Adelbert Fernald, Curator of the Harvard Dental School Museum, has proved that eating a strictly meat diet is the ideal way in which to keep the human mouth in a healthy condition, and that it is due to the fact that civilized people do not eat enough meat that they as a rule have decayed teeth...
...connection with the securing of the Eskimo teeth models from Commander MacMillan, Dr. Fernald arranged with Professor Hooton of the Peabody Museum at Harvard to secure impressions of the teeth of Yucatan natives during a southern expedition. These people are famous as vegetable eaters. Most of them eat no meat whatever. It was found that their teeth were very much decayed. At a surprisingly early age, their teeth lost all semblance of even a normally healthy condition, and most of them, when middle aged, had practically no teeth, whatever. It has been the experience of most dentists that those people...
...Eskimo saw a smoke signal across the fjord near Mount Evans, Greenland. Two men went out in a motor boat to investigate. With a flashlight they signaled back: "Hassell safe." Two minutes later the New York Times received the news by wireless. It was one of the fastest handled and most complete scoops in the history of journalism...
...series of films showing the facility, or lack of it, with which primitive groups in various regions have adapted their material and social culture to the dictates of their environments. The Eskimo will be used as an example of the way in which an intelligent people have made the most of an apparently unfavor- able environment, utilizing what scant materials are at hand to make their lives fairly comfortable in a most inhospitable region; the Bedawins of Arabia to show how a desert environment has led them to adopt a pastoral, nomadic form of existence and has shaped many...
...Baffin Island's unexplored west coast yielded to an expedition under direction of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, evidence of a great new mountain range that may yet cause the map of North America to be changed. Traces of a pre-Eskimo civilization (called by the explorers Tunic) pointed to a lost race...