Word: bartlette
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Lost Tribe. With much-publicized Capt. Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett in command, the schooner Effle Morrisey picked her way carefully along the northeastern coast of Greenland between ice floes as large as Manhattan Island. She carried Harry Whitney, Philadelphia financier-naturalist,* and Junius Bird, archeologist. Mr. Bird had gone on the cold 15,000-mi. trip because he had a mystery he wanted to solve. In 1823, the British explorer, Capt. D. C. Clavering had visited a highly civilized Eskimo settlement along the eastern coast. Since Clavering, no explorer had been able to find the town again. Captain Bartlett landed...
...born in Italy. He is remembered today by college board markers, by pedants who love the sonorous opening of the Aeneid, and by a cynical English playwright. While he lived he was the spokesman of Rome and the foremost poet of the world. Long after Virgil's death, John Bartlett in that hall of literary fame called Familiar Quotations remembered his name in three footnotes...
...Marshall '34, D. Mc. Mathews '32, David Miller '34, T. F. Parshley '34, J. S. Plaut '33, A. W. Polk '34, Roger Potter '32, J. T. Quinby '34, G. R. Shaw II '34, H. S. Sise '34, Thomas Spencer '34. Charles Stephenson '34, John Swarts '34, Christopher Sykes '33, Bartlett Thorogood '34, Legrand Thurber '34, Atreus von Schrader '34, Richard Walsh '34, C. R. Ware '34, Carter Wells '34, George Wightman '34, Harrison Williams '34, E. H. Woodbury...
...BARTLETT...
...musk ox stands 5 ft. tall at the shoulder, has a broad heavy head, large curved horns, can live on Arctic vegetation which would starve a reindeer. Because of their hardy qualities, attempts were made two years ago to domesticate them for use as Arctic cows. Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, leader of the Northeast Greenland Expedition, has two tame musk ox mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches...