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Word: arctics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular belief is that the lemmings' persistent dash to death is an instinctive longing for their former home in the sunken continent of Atlantis. But, notes Elton, the lemmings also surge eastward into the Baltic, northward into the Arctic. Not the whither but the whence, says Elton, explains the lemming migrations. Overcrowding and lack of food in their mountain homes move the lemmings to seek Lebensraum elsewhere. (A few reactionaries stay behind to breed the nucleus of another horde.) The lemmings are great swimmers, and since they have no way of knowing how vast the seas and oceans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Millions & Millions of Mice | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...Siberian Arctic, until recently a grim prospect even for an Eskimo, has begun to yield to plane, radio, icebreaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Siberian Bastion | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...icebreaker Krassin smashed out a 6,000-mile Arctic sea route (Arch-angel-to-Seattle) between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This northern sea route is now open only three to five months of the year. But new freighters of 10,000 tons are being built and "super icebreakers" of 50,000 horsepower and 24,000 tons are projected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Siberian Bastion | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...safe arrival in port, Berlin stepped up its claims by week's end, reporting that every one of the 38 supply ships had been sunk, only five escort vessels left afloat. Whatever the convoy's actual fate, Germany was making its strongest bid to smash the Arctic supply route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF SUPPLY: On the Prowl | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Americans can stop worrying about the projected 1,500-mile highway to Alaska, because nature has provided another one, of which only 300 miles of road need to be constructed. So claims Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson in the July issue of FORTUNE. Most of his highway consists of the Yukon and Mackenzie Rivers. His 300-mile road would connect the two rivers. Says Stefansson: "In North America the Mackenzie River, second only to the Mississippi system, is the historic commercial highway of northwestern Canada. It begins to be navigable at the head of rail north of Edmonton, and flows almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 300 Miles to Alaska | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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