Word: minne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Fact. In St. Paul, Minn., Richard Starkweather, 19, managed to avoid injury when he fainted at the wheel of his car and came to a stop against a curb, fell out on to the pavement when a rescuer opened the door, and had to be rushed to a hospital for treatment of a head injury...
...this river is an old one. It has few portages over 25 chains, and the trail takes one ... to the head of Lake Winnipeg, not far from the mouth of the Red River of the North, up which one was able to canoe almost to the vicinity of Kensington, Minn...
Organic chemistry is about to have a pup, and the pup may grow, theoretically at least, as big as its mother. This week the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. announced that its plant at Hastings, Minn, is turning out a whole litter of "fluorochemicals"-compounds just like ordinary organic chemicals (e.g., acetic acid, ether, etc.), except that they have fluorine in their molecules instead of hydrogen. It should be possible, says Dr. Nelson W. Taylor, manager of Minnesota Mining's fluorochemical department, to make fluorochemical substitutes for all the 100,000-odd organic compounds, from TNT to DDT, that...
When Farmer Olof Ohman stumbled across this laconic (but, to him, illegible) account of adventure and death, near Kensington, Minn, in 1898, he had no idea of the importance of his find. The story was carved on a 200-lb. stone he dug out of a small hill that had once been an island in an ancient lake. The inscription was written in more than 200 runes, the ancient alphabet of the Norse. Ever since the carving was first translated, the Kensington Stone has been one of the most fascinating exhibits in the history of the daring Norse seamen...
...Please be advised that it was none other than Minnesota's own Paul Bunyan who hung "Babe's" bell on that pine tree during a sojourn on the coast . . . BILL MACCONNACHIE Cloquet, Minn...