Word: barrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alaska there is now on trek a herd of 3,000 reindeer, mostly females, which is being driven from Nobuktulik to the Kittigazuit Peninsula in the Canadian Northwest. The herd started in November and is due in the spring of 1931, traveling via the Colville Basin (southeast of Point Barrow, northernmost point of Alaska) where it will spend the fawning season and summer, giving the fawns time to become strong enough to travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested in the reindeer industry...
...which (the left) the Arctic cold bit a finger one day when his plane was forced down. For several years he piloted Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, explorer, over icy wildernesses. Their greatest exploit, as great a piece of avigation as ever was done, was flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, over converging meridians of longitude and across shifting uncharted lines of magnetic force, to Spitsbergen (TIME, April 30, 1928). Last year Eielson flew Sir Hubert from Deception Island over a section of Antarctica (TIME, Dec. 31). This winter he was to fly over the South Pole, but preferred to organize...
Morris II won the Business School touch football championship by defeating Chase II 12 to 0 yesterday. The men in the winning lineup were Captain R. C. Jackson 1G.B., C. R. Barrow 1G.B., A. F. Hook 1G.B., C. A. Valentine 1G.B., D. S. Wentworth 1G.B., M. K. Hall 1G.B., and W. G. Kelly 1G.B...
Other members of the group, which is composed of high standing men from each dormitory, are the following: C. R. Barrow 1G.B.: B. C. Bell 2G.B.: G. W. Colby 2G.B.: W. H. Leahy, Jr. 2G.B.: C. C. Shepard 2G.B.: K. C. Stevens 1G.B; J. H. Walker, Jr. 1G.B...
...force, would serve to study the Arctic's floor. Some geologists believe that the waters rest in a huge basin, others that they hug the outside of a basin upside down. No one knows. Explorer Wilkins found a depth of 17,000 feet (3½ miles) off Point Barrow. Amundsen found 15,000 feet off Spitsbergen. Peary dropped a 3,000-ft. rope at the Pole and could not touch bottom...