Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eskimos, having heard Kudtooktoo's confession, shuffled off. He was a fool to confess, they thought. Except-what did it matter? The white man Marvin was dead, and the white man Peary who had brought him to the Arctic does not come to Greenland any more. What did it matter if Kudlooktoo had learned to be a Christian and confessed...
...explorer Knud Rasmussen knew all about it. He told Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society in New York. For a year and more the secret has been leaking out among explorers that Professor Ross G. Marvin of Cornell, one of Admiral Peary's most trusted Arctic lieutenants, was murdered by the Eskimo Kudlooktoo...
...last week the New York Times triple-column-headed a cablegram from Manhattan publisher George Palmer Putnam who had just discovered the secret of Professor Marvin's death while visiting Whale Sound in North Greenland. Times readers, well schooled to palpitate at Arctic news by the Times elaborate accounts of the Byrd and the Norge polar flights (TIME, May 17 and 24), were roused to a dignified excitement...
...reading Publisher Putnam's "revelation," famed Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson said dryly last week...
...been a sort of tradition of Arctic exploration to suppress the truth in cases of this kind. There have been many similar tragedies. Those who knew the truth of them have usually kept it to themselves...