Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following table, compiled from reports of recent weeks, indicates how populous a place the Arctic Circle will be this summer. It shows ten known expeditions and one more rumored. Five nations are represented: the U. S., France, Norway, Italy, Russia. All these traveling by air will be in search of a hypothetical continent or large island. Six parties mean to visit the Pole...
...Richmond, Harry Floyd Byrd, 38, brother of Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd, who plans a flight into the Arctic, took office as Governor, the "youngest since colonial times", and recommended to the legislature the abolition of high titles and epaulets and other ridiculosities of a governor's "military staff...
...Wainwright, Alberta, some of the shaggy loggerheads were experimentally crossed with Angus, Hereford and shorthorn cows. The resultant "cattaloes" grew up thick-hided, long-haired, with all the hardiness of buffaloes and most of the meat of cattle. They seemed excellent range animals for the vast northern territories (which Arctic explorers have long been recommending for stock-raising), as they can be left to graze all winter without prepared food or shelter. Asians have long crossed the yak, a draft animal, with cattle, getting beef even finer-grained than steer's meat. Present Canadian experiments are upon a "yakattalo...
Experiences of the adventurers on the Navy-MacMillan Arctic Expedition last summer will be described by Lt. Commander Richard Byrd Jr. G. '17, in the Living Room of the Union on Thursday evening, January 14, at 7.30 o'clock...
...South Pole. He went north with Stefansson. He was a War aviator. These last three years he has been beating through tropical Australia for the British Museum. Last week Captain Wilkins announced that he would act upon Stefansson's theory that a man may live off the Arctic as long as ammunition lasts. For this reason, he will take only two-weeks' supply of food in the planes, quite contrary to Amundsen's practice of taking food sufficient for a return journey by sledge, boat or foot...