Word: berg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berg Burning. At Montreal, Dr. Howard T. Barnes, Physics Professor at McGill University, announced an expedition in June to Greenland to experiment with heat mines on icebergs. After 30 years of ice research, he has concocted a chemical he calls "thermit," nonexplosive, non-inflammable, rendered dangerous only by contact with ice, when it develops intense heat in a few seconds. The plan is to apply "thermit" to Greenland's west coast glaciers, "burn them up" before they break off in the huge chunks so dangerous to Atlantic shipping. Floating bergs will also be attacked, the scientists rowing alongside, planting...
...back to their homes in Norway and those who return again to their homes in North Dakota, always homesick for homes across the sea wherever they may be and nearly always driven back to the flat prairie, the land of opportunity and fertility. "Now I see," says Jo Berg, the dissatisfied old schoolmaster, "why it required mountain folk and sailors to conquer the prairie! Their knapsacks and their hearts were full of the wild scenery of the old country, and they lived on it summers and winters alike! The mountains and the sea rescued the plain...
...upon the revue stages of the U. S. and Europe; in New York, of asthma. Mr. Tiller revolutionized chorus dancing; established numerous dancing schools, from which 25,000 girls have graduated; was the author of an English law protecting dancing children from exploitation; supplied "Tiller Girls" to the Follies Bergère, the Ziegfeld Follies...
...name of His Majesty Haakon VII, King of Norway, Paal O. Berg, Norwegian Minister of Justice, last week formally annexed the archipelago of Spitsbergen (Svalbard to the Norwegians, meaning "cool coast...
...ceremony took place at Long-year Valley, on Advent Bay, Spitsbergen, the principal settlement of the island. Minister Berg read a notification of annexation declaring the archipelago to be Norwegian territory and subject to Norwegian law. Up went the Norwegian flag, sailors from the patrol boat Heimdal presented arms, the guns of the Heimdal boomed salutes, the people sang the national anthem and a prayer for Norway was offered. One Lassen of the Ministry of Justice became Prefect of the Territory...