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Word: islesboro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That is bad news, very bad news," gravely remarked Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy in Manhattan one day last week. He referred to reports that at Islesboro, Me. an 11-year-old boy had found a 17-lb. lump of ambergris worth some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Again, Ambergris | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base for expensive perfumes. No such delusion had small, apple-cheeked Roderick Palmer Crandall when he found a chunk of waxy, yellowish stuff near his grandfather's home at Islesboro. To him it was just something which bobbed up with a satisfying swoosh when he pushed it under water. Soon the shorewise eye of Roderick's carpenter-father Hezekiah fell upon it. He sent specimens off to several chemists. Last week he announced that the chemists, whose names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Again, Ambergris | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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