Word: antartica
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last few years most of the nations from Lapland to Antartica have taken their fling at this country; vocabularies have been thumbed over and over for new phrases of vituperation; Uncle Sam is a spendthrift, a miser, a coward, a bully, a fat capitalist, a lean prude. But that he should be pictured as a seductive satyr piping innocent nymphs down the primrose path is hard to believe. Now, however, Senora Doloras Longoria of Mexico has returned to the land of bandits and bull-fights, after a sojourn in "New York, Chicago, and other American cities, where she has made...
Knud Rasmusscn, Danish Arctic explorer: "We all hope for the best. . . . There is especially the possibility of Amundsen going to Fort Conger or Cape Columbia, in which case nothing would be heard from him until the first mail from Thule [Antartica] about this time next year...