Word: basely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film told a tale of pre-War Russia. Spliced into it for realism was a bit of old newsreel showing Tsar Nicholas II. and his Tsaritsa. Fascinated, poor Vassili Martinow watched the Autocrat of all the Russias stride dimly across the screen and enter a base hospital, where he was greeted by the Commandant. As this official's face came into sharp focus, Vassili Martinow gave the thin, high-pitched scream of an old man, and fainted dead away...
...first time since he came to fame, made public tribute to his wife. It was 14 years and a month after they were married. He, in Antarctica, had just flown over and claimed for the U. S. unknown land in the Pacific Quadrant* of the continent, between his base on Ross Sea and Sir George Hubert Wilkins' base on Weddell Sea. The region is south of the long-known Alexandra Mountains and the Byrd-discovered Rockefeller mountains, a great stretch of rumpled iciness...
When Byrd returned to Little America, his base, he was meditative. Finally he said: "I have named this land after the best sport and noblest person I know, one who has borne the brunt of all my adventures and to whom the credit belongs for anything I may have accomplished. This new land will be Marie Byrd Land...
...Winchester. . . . The discovery of Marie Byrd Land seemed likely to mark the end of Byrd explorations by air this year in Antarctica. Ice floes were closing in at the approach of antarctic winter. Last week the supply ship Eleanor Bolling was hurrying from New Zealand to succor the base bark City of New York in the fast-packing Bay of Whales...
Even the college editors, well-informed as they are supposed to be, suffer from the same handicap of having only faulty images on which to base what they will say. The fault is, of course, not peculiar to college students; what is called public opinion is built on a foundation as shaky. Neither should the blame lie wholly on the undergraduates; in most universities there are conditions which keep from the student intimate knowledge of events. But where opinion can be based only on impressions it will never have more than a transitory value...