Word: alaskan
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...loneliness. In this comparison of a wilderness of trees and a wilderness of streets, there might be a deep and stirring picture. The present producers have chosen to make it a cheap composition of many usual things, stringing them together in a generally unamusing necklace. An unschooled Alaskan girl invades Manhattan, cleans out the Biltmore Hotel tea room with her pet bear, learns to dress beautifully, to live dangerously. Matters are complicated by a pair of confidence...
...flags (Italian, Norwegian, U. S.) sticking up at the top of the world on iron-pointed staves dropped into the ice- but not so much as a rocky islet had arisen out of the vast Polar Sea. Disappointed yet jubilant they had flown past Point Barrow, on down the Alaskan coast for 700 miles, and alighted...
...took his cinema cameras to the Eskimo village of Wainwright* and settled down for the hard winter of 1923-24. An able newspaperman, Rossman put in his diary, and has here expanded, facts and fresh impressions which an habitue of the North might have omitted as commonplace: that an Alaskan city was called Nome when, in 1849, an Admiralty draftsman misread the notation "Name?"; that...
...forced marches. Wilkins and Eielson were?the signals were very faint?were there, safe, in a fur-trader's comfortable cabin. They had reached Point Barrow the day of their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains. Heavy-laden, the monoplane Alaskan had not been able to soar over the 10,000-foot peaks this time. Wilkins, his right arm fractured, had sat grimly by in the cockpit while Eielson felt his way between peaks at 9,000 feet. Once, a mountainside had rushed out of the fog so close in front that...
...likelihood, have attempted to penetrate the Polar Basin contrary to his announced plan. "Sandy" Smith, chief of the overland party of the expedition, having reached the seacoast on his way to Barrow, flashed word that Eskimos at Thetis Island, 100 mi. southeast of Barrow had seen the Alaskan pass over, presumably on its most recent trip...