Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While lawyers wrangle over past romances, adventurous spirits still persist in creating complications. If precedent be followed, the Wilkins expedition will cause a dispute over the ownership of further frigid patches of the Arctic ocean...
After 8½ hours more, they "shook hands warmly and all wore bright smiles." They were over the hardest place to reach on earth, some 400 miles south of the North Pole, the center of the Arctic...
...took several drinks of the steaming tea forward to Bennett and I could see how very much he enjoyed it. Good old Floyd! He had flown 3,000 miles with me in the Arctic last year and here he was again risking his life without turning a hair. Without him last year I doubt if I would have got much over 300 miles...
Because of this universal tendency, the world is doubly grateful to Amundsen, who gave free admission to his private fight with the elements. By the help of radio and newspaper, many a stay-at-home has gotten a taste of Arctic exploration causing him to shut the window on the warmest of May days...
...news of the safe arrival of the Norge preempted more, than three quarters of the New York Times front page is a superb tribute to Roald Amundsen, dramatist. To startle a standard, conservative journal into heaving headlines is indeed a feat as remarkable as aerial exploration of the Arctic...