Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian Baron Wrangel heard of, but did not see, the island. In 1867, Captain Thomas Long, U. S. citizen, sailed around and named it. Just before the War, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who recently announced his plans to drift across the Arctic in a tub-shaped boat (TIME, Jan. 14), was wrecked there. He walked across the ice to Siberia. Almost half his party died on Wrangel Island. In 1921, four men and Ada Blackjack, Eskimo sempstress, tried to live on the island. All but Miss Blackjack died. And dead, probably, are the Russian colonists sent there two years...
...North Pole in the Graf Zeppelin with Dr. Hugo von Eckener, in 1930. "Arctic research will be the prime consideration," said Dr. Nansen. When only 26, he achieved the first crossing of Greenland. In 1892, he tried to reach the North Pole in a peculiar, round-shaped boat named Fram; three years later he was crossing the ice on foot to the highest latitude then attained; a year later he was picked up by the Jackson- Harmsworth expedition. Recently, he has been more famed as a diplomat and relief expert-half Viking, half Herbert Hoover...
Last week Consolidated Aircraft Corp. of Buffalo delivered its first 32-passenger flying boat, the Admiral, to the Navy, whose men tried it out at once at Anacostia, D. C., and found it reliable. The event was significant. In the present industrialization of aeronautics two factors have become highly important- private and commercial exploitation. Some twoscore aircraft companies are making small planes for private gadabouting. Less than a dozen are important manufacturers of great planes capable of carrying pay passengers, express, mail. They are to flying what buses and trucks are to motor ing. The greater their payload per trip...
...third round mate of the State squash tournament before Monday. Several other Harvard students are progressing in this tournament which is now approaching the fourth round. Ingraham will men Nelson, Hooe of Newton Center in third round match today. Thane will oppose L. W. Wheeler, Jr. of the Union Boat Club. Breckinridge an A. M. Sonnabend '17 of the Harvard Club will play before Monday and the winner of this match is bracketed in play. T. E. Jansen '26, seeded third the tournament. Myers will meet E. Sawyer of the Harvard Club to decide the fourth round entrant
...Jansen, seeded third, of the Cambridge Squash Racquets Club, defeated E. M. Shelton '31 of Harvard. 15-8, 15-12, 12-15, 15-12; W. F. Rowe of the Union Boat Club defeated A. R. Bolt of Newton Center in five games: F. P. Frasier of the Tennis and Racquets Club defeated P. M. Goddard of Lincoln...