Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...March 1, it was necessary for them to make long forced marches. The next day they made 24 miles, but in the evening Marshall, one of the party, became so exhausted that they left him behind with a companion, while Shackleton and another man pushed on alone. They marched almost all night and early the next afternoon felt the ice heaving under their feet. A little while later they reached open water, but as it was foggy they could not discover the ship. So they cached most of their goods and proceeded along the edge of the ice to their...
...coast, signalled to their vessel for aid, returned with reinforcements without resting, found the men who had been left, and brought all hands out in safety. The party covered 1708 miles over the ice-fields in 126 days. During the last three days, Lieutenant Shackleton was almost continuously on the march. There is no more gallant record of leadership and rescue than this, and the man who made it deserves an enthusiastic welcome in the Living Room of the Union this afternoon...
Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton, the English explorer, will speak in the Living Room of the Union, this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Lieutenant Shackleton last year penetrated almost to the south pole, being stopped after he had surmounted practically all difficulties and had only an open plateau between himself and the pole, by the exhaustion of his provisions. As it was he reached a point farther south than had ever before been attained. Lieutenant Shackleton's stay in America will be brief as he intends to return to England shortly to prepare for another Antarctic expedition...
...undertakings. He was a sincere and unostentatious philanthropist, doing good in his quiet way, but with no ungenerous hand. His contributions to Harvard were countless and unstinted. "The immense University Museum, costly in the monetary sense, and absolutely unreplaceable for its carefully gathered specimens, is almost totally owing to him. The money he put out to build and enlarge it he would scorn to have mentioned. But no monument would suit him better than its curious and precious contents which were his life work and his life-long...
...work of the third crew was a surprise, while that of the second was a disappointment. Early in the race the second petered out, while the third maintained its power and drive almost to the end. Though defeated by the University eight, it held its own with the second...