Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time that two groups of undergraduates were spending the summer in Alaska with scientific and mountain climbing expeditions, a third outfit went to the opposite end of the earth in search of information on tropical diseases. The Medical School's Department of Tropical Diseases sent an expedition to the Katanga district of the Belgian Congo...
...being made in the Geology Department. The figures upon which they are working are the result of three months work by a combined Harvard-Dartmouth expedition which had as its two-fold purpose the ascent of Mt. Crillon's 12,728 foot peak in the Fairweather range of Alaska and the collecting of accurate information in the little-known field of glacier movements. The party, composed of 11 men under the leadership of Bradford Washburn '33, was divided into two groups; the climbing party of Adams Carter '36, Howard Kellog '37, Waldo Holcombe '33, Edward C. Streeter Jr. '36, Bradford...
...Denali" (Home of the Sun) is the Kuskokwim Indians' name for Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mt. McKinley, highest point in North America. Few miles distant is the summit of Mt. Foraker, 17,000 ft. high, whose two breastlike peaks the Kuskokwim call "Denali's Wife." "Denali" had been climbed to the top but "Denali's Wife" had not last July when Dr. T. Graham Brown of the University of South Wales & party set up their base camp on the Foraker River. From there the climbers struggled to the ice-clad summit of Mt. Foraker...
Thus advertised the Alaska Line this summer, believing that many a tourist would like to see what few tourists have seen?the grinding, gleaming polar ice pack, which squeezes ships to death in winter, retreats north of the Arctic Circle in summer. For its pioneer cruise the company refitted its 3,868-ton icebreaker Victoria, booked passengers at $250 to $390. Last week, laden to the gunwales with 500 "arm-chair adventurers" and well started on its 7,000-mile, 26-day itinerary, the Victoria sailed from Nome for the dash to the ice pack's fringe. Later the ship...
...State's own game department. Thus, California will hunt Saturdays and Sundays for eleven weeks (22 days), New Mexicans for 14 weeks (28 days). All other States elected the maximum 30-day season, but only Nebraska and West Virginia will observe continuous seasons. In 30 States and Alaska, hunters will shoot three days a week for ten weeks, in nine others five days a week for six weeks. Bag and possession limits are the same as last year except for a few imperiled species...