Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...made a number of trips into the Arctic with famous explorers, including MacMillan, Stefansson, W. B. Cabot and Nikkelsson, and he has become one of the acknowledged authorities on northern exploration...
...gloom which dominated the second and third of the plays made the first piece seem almost a merry trifle. It is called "The Harbour of Lost Ships," and is by Miss Louise Whitefield Bray, a Radcliffe graduate. The scene is laid in Labrador or Green Bay or some correspondingly Arctic atmosphere where the inhabitants, doubtless by reason of the frigidity of the environment, believe in hell with a peculiar ferocity. A boy is about to die in the company of his sister and a parson, who looks in at the last moment to say that the boy is certain...
...fourteen, and captain of a fisherman at twenty, mate of a whaling ship at twenty-six, and master at thirty. For twenty years this rugged "toiler of the sea" chased the whale south to the Falkland in the Antarctic Ocean and north to the Banks Land in the Arctic following a course traced out upon no chart, avoiding shoals marked by no buoys, and all the time surrounded by countless dangers...
Archaeology is the really romantic thing in this generation, now that war has been turned into a dismal science, and no, more strange countries--only wastes of Arctic snow--remain to be explored--The record of the latest discoveries of the Harvard Egyptian Expedition, under Dr. George A. Reisner, as related by him to an Associated Press correspondent at Cairo, is surely a story of romance. The expedition had gone far up the Nile, to Napata, in the province of Dongola, on that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward...
Last week the crews underwent the difficulties and hardships of Arctic exploration to be on the river, and the soccer squad kicked a ball among the ice sheets and mud puddles of Soldiers Field for the sake of being out-of-doors. Today the fielding candidates for the nine don the glove, and the lacrosse men assume the stick. Tomorrow, figuratively speaking, others will exert themselves in track and football...