Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They, their stenches, their minds and their diet repelled and depressed him at first. He came deeply to like and admire them. In the months of reading with them the Arctic's "Book of Silence," he lost haste, worry, rebelliousness, egoism. By spring he was so much one of them that he was painfully ill at ease-and bored-at sight of a white...
...years ago a voracious Freshman was to wait only eight more days before he began the famous goldfish-eating craze, and things around the College certainly were not dull what with the swimming team trying to acquire a red Arctic goose for a mascot, with another wayward Yardling going out for a midnight snack in his brightest pajamas, and with the Crimson requiring its candidates to kiss all Radcliffe girls coming out of Fogg Art Museum...
...Flaherty got the idea of doing a documentary film. A cross between a feature picture and an old-fashioned travelogue, it was to have a central story (man's struggle against Arctic cold and hunger), a cast of characters (Nanook and his family). He persuaded John Revillon and Thierry Mallet, of the famed fur-trading Revillon Freres, to back an expedition to Cape Dufferin on the northeast coast of Hudson...
...year for four years Ornithologist Charles E. Gillham of the Biological Survey in Washington has trekked into northern Canada, to ask natives questions about the Ross's goose. It was suspected that their breeding ground was somewhere near the mouth of the Perry River, which runs into the Arctic Ocean at Queen Maud Gulf, southeast of big Victoria Island. Last summer Gillham chartered a plane, flew over the Perry River region, saw so many of the birds that he was certain the breeding grounds were there. But floating ice in the bay prevented a landing...
From the Klondike the Yukon River brawls across the U. S. border into desolate interior Alaska at the town of Eagle.* Here is tough country. At times spirit thermometers show cold of 70° below zero, and lower. The Arctic Circle is only 100-odd miles north; friendly Fairbanks is 200 bitter miles west. Few sourdoughs and no chechakhos live on these rolling tundras, where the ground is frozen several hundred feet down-country in which Chechakho Jack London starved and froze, seeking gold and finding stories...