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...vanishing fountain is only one indication of how great the drug line has become. Almost a million prescriptions have been ordered and mailed to Roosevelts, Longfellows, and such in the States; to less well-known patrons in Siberia, Greenland, and even Tibet. Techniques of compounding potions have changed little since the customers wore string ties and bustles, but the products are somewhat different. Patent medicines are less in demand now, and if there are any home remedies in stock, they are dwarfed by a modern refrigerator that holds biological scrums and penicillin. Business is strictly ethical, and though students...
Only Fit for a Saga. Like Pytheas, the Vikings, who roamed from Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen to Greenland and Newfoundland, were too far ahead of their time. By the15th Century, when their own exploratory impetus was spent, their Arctic trade-routes and their flourishing Greenland colonies had become mere fantastic stuff for sagas...
...Metropolitane, who, seeming to bless it, ,saide in Russ, 'this is God's gift'; as indeed at that time it was ... in length five foote and two inches of assize." Martin Frobisher, pushing to the northwest,, met a less favorable reception. He rediscovered Greenland (rising "like pinnacles of steeples all covered with snow"), but the Eskimos chased him and his crew back where they came from, "and hurt the generall in the buttock with an arrow...
...cause of topography, meteorology and zoology, scores of ships, thousands of men, were swallowed by the Arctic. Sweden's Dr. Wulff, crossing the Greenland icecap with Rasmussen, became' too tired to eat; but as he crawled on, he "jotted down notes on the surrounding flora," dictated to his companion a concise summary of the local vegetation, and then said quietly: "Now I can go no further. . . . Will you find a place for me where I can lie down?" In 1930 John Courtauld, pioneer of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition, volunteered to remain snowed-in for an entire...
They caught their share of bad weather and good parties, more than their share of good luck. They came down with flu in Greenland. They almost missed Iceland, got in just before the weather closed down tight. Their progress through Europe was slowed by sightseeing and weather (said Mrs. Evans: "He's going to have to make up some awfully good excuses...