Word: british
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Byrd Expedition embarked more than a year ago, the British Government forwarded to the U. S. State Department a note expressing polite interest in the U. S. venture, but at the same time carefully detailing British claims to most of the Antarctic continent and surrounding archipelagoes...
...Antarctic continent is a pie-shaped disk 5,000,000 sq. mi. in area, circled by a white crust of mountains 10,000 ft. high. It may contain valuable minerals or oil. Great Britain has a generally recognized claim to two segments of the pie. British Explorers James Clark Ross (1902), Robert Falcon Scott, (1902), Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1919) claimed their discoveries in the name of the British sovereign...
...winter offering, the very antipodes of the radical and highly colored "Fiesta" which made so much disturbance last year. No one need be afraid to take one's nicest relative to see it. Why "Success" has never been produced in America is not quite clear. It is no more British than "Mr. Pym", no more ironic than "The Truth About Blayds", no more fanciful than "The Romantic Age", all well beloved pieces. It is the story of a career man in the cabinet, just about to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, who meets again a friend of his boyhood...
Alexander Maxwell Stollmeyer, of Trinidad, British West Indies...
...Tuesday, December 10, Mr. H. M. Watkins, a British Laborite, will lead a discussion after luncheon on "An Englishman Looks at American Industry" at the Harvard Liberal Club, 66 Winthrop Street...