Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...converted Navy submarine with which Explorer Sir George Hubert Wil- kins expects to prowl like a polliwog under the Arctic ice next summer, cruised last week from its shipyard at Camden, N. J. to New York Harbor. Sir Hubert, with a fresh medal in his kit,* walked the gangplank to a Brooklyn dock and stood by while the curious eyed his beard and submarine...
...beard, dark brown, soft and short, was originally a protection against Polar cold in the Arctic and Antarctic. Now the beard is an insignium of popular science. As a correspondent-explorer for William Randolph Hearst, Sir Hubert is distinguished in appearance as well as achievements...
...object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed air and so absorb most of the shock. Since the boat will cruise at 3 knots during the 3,000 mi. under ice course of its Arctic journey, the danger of concussions is slight...
...purposes are to explore the Arctic Ocean floor, to study Arctic currents, temperatures, flora & fauna, to make meteorological observations, to search for an island or stationary ice floe where a weather station might be built, and to thrill Hearstpaper readers. He has radio receiving and sending equipment in the ship, will steadily report the minutiae of his progress, just as the world cruise of Dr. Hugo Eckener's* Graf Zeppelin were reported by him. Lady Grace Drummond Hay and Karl von Wiegand...
...Verne's famed grandfather's imagination. Readers were allowed to believe that it was from Jules Verne's book that Sir Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that he derived the thought, while the two were on the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-18. Were Sir Hubert a charlatan he might aver that the idea popped from an inherited cell of his brain. In 1642 appeared an English book Mathematical Magick in which a "submarine" was intelligently described, its operation suggested with fair sense, and the indication hinted that...