Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the eyes of the world were sweeping the Atlantic, anxious, fearful of the fate of two flying Germans and an Irishman, a tiny plane droned its way across the unknown waste and terror of the Arctic. Impervious to disappointment, danger, tragedy, Capt. George Hubert Wilkins and Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson took off unannounced from Point Barrow, Alaska, came down for five dismal days on uninhabited Doedmansoeira (Dead Man's Island), arrived last week triumphant at the haven of Spitzbergen...
...foxes seen" said the cryptic message received from Capt. Wilkins by Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society. It meant there was no land between Point Barrow and Spitzbergen and put an end to the fond dream of a vast continent in the "blind spot" of the Arctic...
...Arctic Mummies (American Museum of Natural History). Under the leadership of Dr. Frank Michler Chapman, the famed polar ship Morrissey (Captain R. A. Bartlett in command) is now on its way among the Aleutian Islands, off Alaska, to collect sea otters and sea birds...
Later in the summer the expedition will go along the Arctic coast of Siberia, hunting for live and mummified animals, birds, fish...
Since 1913 the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology has been studying the effects of different diets. Messrs. Stefansson and Anderson were particularly good subjects because during Arctic adventures Stefans son lived about seven years on meat alone, while Anderson ate nothing else for over a year. There was no danger of the imaginary headaches or indigestion that might beset beef-eating beginners. Both men lost a little weight at the start and then trained back to the pink...