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Word: lesko (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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...only from Asiatic deer and Abyssinian civet cats. Two chemists at Yale and Louisiana State claim to have extracted musk from the glands of the common muskrat (one-third of an ounce of distilled musk from 175 animals). Du Pont also makes a synthetic musk called Astrotone. †Pronounced Lesko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ylang-Ylang Tree | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

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