Word: amphibians
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...Coffin was having things to say to parents, too; forceful things, revealing, for a layman, an extraordinary acquaintance with current science, literature, philosophy. His sermon on the amphibian is classic. Are we to be sprawlers, floppers, drifters, no better than our amphibian ancestors? Let there be precise, controlled movement. Can you do what you ought, when you ought, whether you want to do it or not? Amphibians . . . the parable, under an orator's magic, progresses...
...French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners...
...Steamship Corp., of the United American Lines, Inc., of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corp., and director of the Guaranty Trust Co., of New York, of the Wells Fargo Co., of the American Railway Express Co., of the National Surety Co.) If he does so, he will be truly a transportation amphibian...
Commander Byrd was in charge of the Naval detachment of the Expedition which was to have flown to the North Pole from Etan, one of the farthest North bases of MacMillan. He planned to take three Loening Amphibian planes as far North as was possible in the Expedition's steam vessel, to unpack them at Etah, and then to fly North to Cape Columbia or Cape Thomas Hubbard where a flying base could be established. From Axel Heiberg land the planes were to attempt the flight over unexplored territory to the North Pole. The expedition fell short of its goal...
Commander Byrd was in charge of the three Loening Amphibian planes which were to have flown to the North Pole from Etah, MacMillan's northernmost land base. He will show moving pictures taken on that expedition particularly illustrating the handling of the planes; one reel having been taken entirely...