Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brandy and sugar was the only nourishment many of the Indians got. Later, more drugs were dropped by an R.C.A.F. plane and food was hauled in. In the windowless, filthy hovels, modern nursing techniques were impossible. Said Nurse Bond: "It was not the easiest thing to look professional in Arctic regalia, crawling into a tepee on hands & knees and having to squat on the saliva-spattered ground while the smoke from the bonfire blinded one. Our favorite expression soon became klootna-kloon [too much smoke] . . . and it was flattering to enter the wigwams and be greeted with chai-wootcha [good...
...arctic snows, as in the Alabama bottoms, the slave's sentiment is: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child...
Last week, Audubon Society members had completed scores of bird counts which proved that the U.S. will have a booming owl winter. From Arctic Canada had come reports that lemmings, the mouselike rodents which are the favorite food of snowy owls, are critically scarce. In years of plenty, when Arctic vegetation is growing vigorously, the lemming population builds up until the barren lands are alive with lemmings. The owls increase too. Well-fed with lemmings, they lay and hatch clutches of ten eggs or more...
...every three or four years, hard times come to the barren lands. For some reason (possibly sunspots), the Arctic vegetation is not so nutritious as usual this year; the lichens and mosses on which the lemmings feed apparently lack vitamins. Naturalists call such a time a "crash year." On noiseless, downy wings the great owls drift across the U.S. boundary looking for U.S. mice. Sometimes they get as far as southern Illinois or even the Carolinas...
Died. George Palmer Putnam, 63, publisher, author and explorer, husband of the late Amelia Earhart (the second of his four wives); of uremic poisoning; in Trona, Calif. Head of two scientific expeditions to the Arctic in the '20s, Putnam was best known as sponsor of Amelia Earhart's 1932 Atlantic solo flight (the first made by a woman), and as publisher of Charles Lindbergh's bestselling autobiography...