Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed purge. Radek was imprisoned, Bukharin shot, and one by one the names on Volume One's title page disappeared in Stalin's great liquidation. By 1938, when the purge was hottest and Volume 37 appeared, Shmidt alone was left; he kept cool and smiling in the Arctic...
What's more, "U.S. meteorologists have been perhaps the most productive in the world" in recent years. More international exchange of weather information, Reichelderfer admitted, would be helpful-particularly from Asia, South America and the Arctic. And on the whole, U.S. predictions are certainly not yet good enough: "That's about what we often say around here...
...cried. "The bigger the peace vote in 1948, the more definitely the world will know that the U.S. is not behind the bipartisan reactionary war policy which is dividing the world into two armed camps and making inevitable the day when American soldiers will be lying in their arctic suits in the Russian snow...
Goateed Sir Hubert Wilkins, 47, intrepid Arctic explorer, faced a new challenge: in Seattle a stalled elevator trapped him (and the operator) between floors for ten minutes. Sir Hubert finally fought his way back to civilization by clambering up through the emergency exit...
...Force announced last week, after a year's reconnaissance in the Arctic, that it had discovered two new magnetic north poles. That brought the total to four (including magnetic and true poles...