Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes a crew time to develop, and so far the Varsity is still below maximum efficiency, so defeats now don't necessarily spell the end of Olympic chances in June. The sub-arctic condition of the Charles in the early part of the season has much to do with this slow development, giving the crews of more tropical climes an advantage in April...
...trip is under the auspices of the War Department, and the Arctic Institute of North America...
...effect. Men discovered, to their great annoyance, that Columbus' "spice island" was a vast continent which shut them off from the rich Indies; and they tried again & again to by-pass America and Russia by finding some northwest or northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...
Thereafter, the dream of attaining Cathay was half-lost in the rich reality of Arctic furs, ivory, oil and blubber. Thus began the long, harrowing, and still unfinished labor of charting the frozen Arctic regions...
...cause of topography, meteorology and zoology, scores of ships, thousands of men, were swallowed by the Arctic. Sweden's Dr. Wulff, crossing the Greenland icecap with Rasmussen, became' too tired to eat; but as he crawled on, he "jotted down notes on the surrounding flora," dictated to his companion a concise summary of the local vegetation, and then said quietly: "Now I can go no further. . . . Will you find a place for me where I can lie down?" In 1930 John Courtauld, pioneer of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition, volunteered to remain snowed-in for an entire...