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...This conviction he owed not to the evidence of any single find but to the accumulated evidence of many finds. In several places in the West and Southwest, he pointed out, human remains and crude implements had been found in association with certain species of ground sloths, musk oxen, elephants, all long extinct. Weather, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, slow-spoken, thin-faced secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and famed sun observer, flatly affirmed before the Academicians that weather repeats itself in cycles of 23 years. All the assembled scientists realized that this hard & fast pronouncement was not based on sheer...
First white man to penetrate the Barren Lands, he counted his expedition a success when he came back alive with a single trophy: a musk-ox head. Grimly faithful diarist, no matter how frost-bitten or near-delirious with tropical fever, he seldom missed recording his daily tale. Fond of good living when he could get it, he learned to thrive on savage fare. Few things turned his stomach. Once in Africa, stooping to drink from a shallow well, he saw in the water beneath his own reflection "the ragged black face of a man, newly murdered...
...hoped also to find some clue to the vanishing of the aboriginal inhabitants, to investigate a reported immigration of musk oxen and white wolves from the islands north of Canada. But he was looking for whatever he could find. From the first summer's work he took back to Copenhagen news of a coal deposit containing 50,000 tons, "superior to English coal;" after the second, he had quantities of fossil stegocephali, four-legged amphibians presumed to be evolutionary links between fish and reptiles...
...Manhattan Promoters James Victor Worth and William Bower were trying to develop a new perfume base, using a valerianate instead of musk. Their chemist was Dr. Samuel Molanr, onetime professor in Austria's University of Graz. Compounding certain chemicals (now a trade secret) he one day discovered to his amazement that the valerianate had been transformed, its odor completely destroyed. Contrary to known chemical laws, the reaction worked again & again. Promoters Worth & Bower knew about the clothing industry's troubles, were quick to see their discovery's commercial value...
Artificial Musk. The male musk deer ranges Central Asia with an alluring odor. Perfumers cannot get enough of the natural musk for their trade, have got chemists to produce trinitro-t-butyl toluene which smells exactly like the real stuff. At Washington, Julian Werner Hill and Wallace Hume Carothers of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. described new ways of imitating musk...