Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jong was within 600 miles of the North Pole last summer, according to Donald McMillan, famous Arctic explorer, who in a recent interview declared that the Chinese game was the most popular on board his ship "Bowdoin", during the whole of its 15 months' cruise to the North...
...Earth's poles, knows the vicissitudes of life. Once he immortalized himself by sweeping to the southern tip of the imaginary line on which the world revolves. More recently, only a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 17), he went into bankruptcy, his substance expended in the Arctic. One of his few assets was the schooner Maud which he had left near Alaska to drift across trie pole in the Arctic icepack, while he went adventuring toward the pole by airplane. The failure of the airplane venture was one of the causes of his bankruptcy...
...North Pole would be comparatively small and either vessel could fly there and back in 72 hours. But terrible dangers would be involved The dirigible would be deprived of all weather reports, and might meet wild and unexpected gales in the barren North. The terrible cold of Arctic regions, enhanced by altitude, would tax the endurance of the crew to the utmost, and extreme precautions would be necessary to prevent freezing of radiators and engines. A forced landing in the frozen wilds would mean certain death. Success would have little value. Fleeting observations of magnetic action, a rough sketch...
...Voyager. Now a physician, Doyle spent seven months on an arctic whaling trip. He ended the expedition an experienced hand with the harpoon. The following year found him sliding down the west coast of Africa in a tiny steamer. Ensued storm, narrow escapes from shipwreck, fire at sea, native savages, blackwater fever, swimming in shark-infested waters, curious fish, all the relentless cruelty of "the great, sullen, brown Continent...
...Brooklyn Standard Union, and helped organize Peary's expedition to the Pole. To him the explorer sent the famed code cable "Sun" (meaning "We have reached the world's end"). In 1894, he led the relief expedition after Peary when he was lost in the Arctic. He found Peary, provisioned him and brought back Mrs. Peary and her infant daughter, who had been born in the Far North...