Word: arctics
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Clippings of the article on p. 32 of TIME, Feb. 3 concerning the recoveries of my banded Arctic Terns have been forwarded to me by several friends. May I presume to correct your statements? Here are the facts...
...convictions at Mays Landing last week were part of a general house-cleaning anticipated by long-suffering townsmen. The procuress, Kitty Harris, operated her lupanar at No. 2128 Arctic Ave., Atlantic City. Shrewd Journal reporters alleged that she had not only enjoyed official patronage, but was the Mayor's tenant. The bookmaker, Louis O'Donnell, had the distinction of being the first member of his profession to be sent to prison by the rusty wheels of Atlantic County justice in 33 years...
...southern tip of Africa, in the Indian Ocean, 9,000 mi. from Labrador. This was accepted by the Northeastern Bird-Banding Association meeting in Boston fortnight ago, as the longest migration ever proved to have been made by a bird. The previous record was held by an arctic tern which had flown from Turneuik Bay in southern Labrador to Margate, Natal, South Africa, some 8,000 miles...
Supper was a sad, silent meal one evening last week aboard the ice-locked fur-ship Nanuk off the northeast coast of Siberia. Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam, flying the Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were...
...manufactures concrete products at Elk River, Minn., offered an unorthodox theory to account for certain odd phenomena-the freezing of mastodons in Siberia with half eaten grass in their mouths, the sudden razing of forests whose fossils are found lying horizontally, the drifting of continents, the dislocation of Arctic, Temperate and Torrid Zones, the failure of the magnetic poles to coincide with the terrestrial poles. Mr. Longfellow's theory is that the moon in comparatively recent times popped out from where the Pacific now is and suddenly jerked the earth awry...