Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacMillan's object is not a quest of the Pole, but a study of climatic and magnetic conditions in the Arctic region. The influence of the aurora borealis on radio will be observed. The discoveries of changes in the sun's heat ( TIME, May 5) and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age. MacMillan hopes to find definite scientific data as to whether a new glaciation may be expected, but most geologists hold that it is too early to make predictions. The last...
...Arthur Conan Doyle: "Back in London after delivering 40 spiritualist lectures, I declared Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco to be the world's most materialistic cities. Of an alleged message from Oscar Wilde, which described the Arctic as ' an ocean of foaming jasper,' said I: 'I think nothing could be more reminiscent of Wilde's style...
...broadened. But they do not show the vast, complicated network which Professor Lowell thought he observed there. The most distinctive features of the Martian topography are the polar snowcaps, brilliant white patches at the respective poles, which expand in the Martian winter and diminish in summer, just as the arctic regions on the earth. The color changes in the canals and spots are also seasonal, and very suggestive of vegetation. These and other observations have led to the irresistible conclusion that Mars has air, water, warmth, and vegetable life. The planet is 4,230 miles in diameter, but little more...
Alan R. Crawford, Canadian, with three companions, all from the Vilhjalmur Stefansson expedition, have supposedly been in occupation of the island since 1921. Stefansson urges the Canadian and British Governments to annex Wrangel Land for a landing on a future Arctic airline. It is even suggested that the Japanese may move in if Canada does not acquire the island...
...great gold rush to the Yukon. The President went to the chief hotel and delivered a short address, reviewing the history of the town. Mrs. Harding was presented with a bouquet of dahlias, each flower almost a foot in diameter. There the President became a member of the Arctic Brotherhood and took an oath never to maltreat horse...