Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white nights" of May, Leningrad is particularly beautiful, with the sky aglow from Arctic lights and the birch trees in the parks shining against the dark earth. Students study at their windows, needing no artificial light; sometimes they go out and stroll along the embankment behind the Winter Palace (now the Palace of Art), where, across the Neva, they can see the great bulk of the Peter and Paul Fortress, in which are buried many Tsars. Along the Prospect of the 25th of October (the Nevsky Prospect of Tolstoy's heroes' time) sparrows are thick in the trees...
Problems of supply-food and munitions-were announced as having been specially discussed by the conferees, but the vast horizon for military action which the Council now contemplates was revealed by comments from authoritative quarters after the conferees dispersed. This horizon now stretches all the way from the Arctic Ocean around through the Atlantic and Mediterranean to the Gulf of Persia. In Paris, wise talk was about swiftly increasing aid for Finland (see p. 24). In London it was reported that M. Daladier had proposed breaking off relations with Russia, but that Mr. Chamberlain restrained him, preferring to let Russia...
...since Apl 15, 1911 when Thomsin first presented his plan in "Nouvelle Revue Paris" and in his book "The Chinese" London 1910. His biog. in W. W. in U.S.: N.].: East: Authors: Canada: Internat'l London: Nat'l mag Boston Nov. 1915. Photo of him and his famous white Arctic sled dog team main gate attraction at A.K.C. shows for hospitals, churches re, Newark "News" Jan 22-32: N. Y. Post Fch 24, 31: World Travel London Apl 1927 p 150. K. Webster Stocking Glen Rock...
...members who dared to introduce resolutions not in strict conformity with the party line. It has been boycotted by Catholic and Republican youth organizations; a formidable rival group claiming almost two million members has sprung up; and further secession movements seem to be well under way. The Arctic war has frozen out the ruling minority and has crystallized the different currents of opinion which had lost themselves in a swamp of lethargic submissiveness to an "aggressive" leadership...
...picked for stamina from the four ships, under Constantine Badigin. who had been elected captain of the Sedov. The new icebreaker J. Stalin tried to reach the Sedov, but another winter set in and she had to give up. At this point Joseph Stalin decided to turn the Arctic fiasco into an asset. He purged the Glavnoye Upravlenya, Severnovo Morskovo Puty (Central Administration of the Northern Sea Route-Glavsevmorput' for short), kicked its chief. Professor Otto Schmidt, upstairs into a vice-presidency of the Academy of Sciences, named 46-year-old Ivan Papanin (who had made himself famous...