Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 1, 1909 Dr. Cook, after some two years in the Arctic, announced that he had reached the North Pole. Promptly the Crown Prince of Denmark bestowed on him the medal of the Danish Geographical Society. British Journalist Philip Gibbs at once doubted Cook's story. On Sept. 6, Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, who had raced Dr. Cook to the Pole, said of his competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which...
...ARCTIC ADVENTURE-Peter Freuchen-Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). Book about Eskimos, by a man who settled among them, married an Eskimo woman (TIME, Nov. 25). Book-of-the-Month Club choice for April...
...Stalin is raising a hubbub among the international lawyers the world over; for what does the Soviet Government do but claim even the pack ice all the way to the North Pole! Ah, the bit in the teeth; the jump at the starting post in the race for the Arctic! For pack ice is good for radio stations and even landing fields. What a merry mess for the lawyers! If an iceberg with a radio station breaks away and drifts down to Alaska, will "the constitution follow the flag?" The Vagabond chuckles in secret glee. Professor Hopper buttons...
...Harvard collection is considered the most authoritative in the world in plants of the United States and South America, and is very strong in Arctic and Mexican flora. The Herbarium was founded in 1864 when Asa Gray, pioneer American botanist, gave his private collection of more than 200,000 specimens to Harvard...
...year, Bolshevism or no Bolshevism. Only under Dictator Stalin were Christmas trees in Russia made socially tabu. Last week the lid was off. Savants of Bolshevism gamboled at the Lenin Institute, where the features of their Grandfather Frost were those of Bolshevism's great pioneer in blazing new Arctic routes, Professor Otto Schmidt (TIME...