Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like Death Valley Scotty. The first famed lost mine in the Valley after the Gunsight was the Breyfogle. Huge, big-footed Louis Jacob Breyfogle found it in 1864, brought back ore that was rotten with gold, but he had been so tormented by his Indian captors that he went crazy whenever he approached the area of his wealth and suffering. The Indians had started following him from curiosity, unable to believe that the enormous tracks he left could have been made...
...human embryology for $75, an ichthyosaurus paddle for $15, a nearly complete ichthyosaurus skeleton for $300. A 300,000,000-year-old trilobite may cost as little as 50?, a collection of small Silurian fossils 65?. Princeton University recently ordered a cat skeleton, Columbia University 25 Ib. of lead ore, the University of Illinois 18 bullfrog skeletons. A man in Jamaica who had failed in business four times and felt the need of a magic talisman wrote for "the head of a white weasel." A medicine show proprietor asked for something that he could exhibit as human tapeworms, explaining that...
...States, 22 have direct access to tidewater. Busy though far inland are such U. S. ports as Houston, Tex., 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; Portland, Ore., 112 miles, and Seattle, Wash., 143 miles from the Pacific; New Orleans, 107 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi...
...attics and among the heirlooms of the earth, historical manuscripts lie hidden like nuggets in the coarse ore of family possessions. They seem to be everywhere except where a scholar might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park...
Expert Winton proudly pointed to an official mark of 360 eggs, set by a Corvallis, Ore. Leghorn in 1934-35. Questioned further, he consulted his records, discovered that the official world's champion was a Black Orpington which laid 363 eggs in New Zealand...