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...imagination to describe the vale of Shittim, location of the wicked cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, though with benefit of modern geological research. "A pall of thin, grey haze hovered ominously over the valley and the smell of sulphur filled the air. There were places . . . where naphtha oozed from the ground, slimy and flammable. There was also asphalt (bitumen) for the gathering . . . Petroleum gases and light fumes of sulphur often hung on the air above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this, it is thought, touched off an internal explosion...
...Henry Minott, New England news editor of United Press, picked a list, after years of watching wire copy, of the 20 most commonly misspelled words: inoculate, weird, uncontrollable, changeable, gauge, naphtha, rehearse, accommodate, sizable, discernible, diphtheria, permissible, paraphernalia, Averell (Harriman), judgment, dietitian, preventive, embarrass, indispensable, harassment...
Young George Merck grew up in the pleasant country demesne of Llewellyn Park, spent his summers sailing in his father's naphtha launch on Lake Hopatcong, traveling abroad or around the U.S. In the Harvard class of 1915, Merck finished his B.A. work a year early, and planned to go to Germany for a doctorate in chemistry. World War I prevented that. His father said: "Come on into the shop. The war will be over in a few months and then you can go and get your degree." But as Merck says: "I never...
...Stands for Ads. What are ads? Movie ads are tempting and alluring advertisements which entice you not to miss the pictures they are advertising, but in spite of which people go to see the pictures anyway. . . . The most gifted ad-writer of them all was Magnum J. Naphtha...
...Naphtha (singing...