Word: beringer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"I think," wrote Fred R. Cutcheon of Madison, Wis. to Barren's weekly, "that it is about time we stopped playing Hitler's game and took advantage of the one route between the two continents that is not subject to the submarine menace." Mr. Cutcheon is a tall...
"Japan is immeasurably more than an enemy in the Pacific; it is much more than the ally of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini." To make his point graphic, Kiralfy triangulates the eastern hemisphere. The apex he puts at Cape St. Vincent in Portugal; the base runs from Singapore to Bering...
Day in, day out, rain lashes in from the Bering Sea. It rains so hard in Yakutat that fresh concrete is ruined before it has a chance to set. Farther south, parts of Annette Island are a subarctic swampland, where plank roads have to be shored up on pilings driven...
Thus, according to Rudyard Kipling, sang the great sleek Callorhinus alascanus, the fur seal, of his summer home in the Bering Sea, the barren volcanic islands of the Pribilof Archipelago. To these islands each May the males come first, from their winter haunts in the north Pacific-huge, scarred 600...
Comparing blood types of American aborigines 1) with each other, 2) with contemporary and theoretical ancient Asiatics, he decided that Tierra del Fuegians came from Asia earliest, Eskimos last, that all the Indians in the Americas can roughly be dated by their distribution from south to north, that is, by...