Word: bartlette
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would want young men," said Capt. Robert Bartlett, last week, "tenderfeet, enthusiastic as hell . . . college trained men . . . with their background and enthusiasm they would know what to do when we got there." He was discussing his plan to man a saucer-shaped ship, sail it north of Bering Strait, let it freeze into the ice, then wait three or four years while the ship drifted with the ice floes over the North Pole and down into the Atlantic Ocean...
...exploring tyro is "Bob" Bartlett. He is 53. He was with Commander Peary on two of his expeditions to the North Pole. He commanded the Karluk, Canadian government vessel which was splintered to pieces by ice pressure. Last week Capt. Bartlett returned from Siberia, whither he had taken a party from Manhattan's Museum of Natural History...
Arts and Cuts Department, chairman, Morton Bartlett; sub-chairmen, H. C. Dickinson, John Howland, and W. S. Warner...
Married. Ella Victoria Herbert of Manhattan, daughter of the late famed composer Victor Herbert; and Robert Stevens Bartlett of Binghampton, N. Y.; in Manhattan...
Certainly Mr. Bartlett must admit that Lincoln was fit for the presidency. Would Lincoln be an ideal president for Harvard College? A president of a nation does not necessarily need to possess the qualities to be president of Harvard College . . . . . . . What a calamity if Coolidge were to step from the national presidency up to that of Harvard College! Mr. Bartlett feels sure he is eligible. I, then, could very easily conceive why forty professors would "fold their tents like Arabs and silently steal away". Peter J. White Bove...