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Crouch & Swing. There was no Maginot Line mentality in the Central African conception. The 19,000-foot snowcap of legendary Kilimanjaro might be a figurative Gibraltar at the approaches to the Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: To Darkest Africa | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...great good friend of the late Andrew Carnegie whom he resembles,* Professor Wieland last week retorted warmly in the columns of Science that Fossil Cycad National Monument "has no more to do with speleology [cave lore] than the snowcap of Kilimanjaro. It must have been an oversight on the part of nature to put so much scientific clarity and loveliness only 22 miles from a cavern in a gulch and now surrounded by a sort of caravansary. That is not what the student of evolution exactly wishes to see first. . . . Will the 'public' be as dumb tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oh, God, Why Live | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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