Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dickie" Byrd sees the cover meant to be a "likeness"-he'll never get to the Antarctic-he'll die on the spot of chagrin for being pictured as a freshman in the university of TIME...
...International, Keystone, Acme, P. & A. or the Wide World picture services could have furnished him with a better photographic model than this blank face of a youth about twenty years Byrd's junior...
Richard Evelyn Byrd's flagship City of New York left for two much-advertised years in Antarctica (TIME, Aug. 20.) Before departure he sent hurry calls to complete the paraphernalia of a miniature civilization stowed aboard the vessel. The list made up by Chief Physician Dr. Francis Dana Coman, of Johns Hopkins, and presented to Charles Capehart, President of the Association Against Impure Liquor, read as follows...
...desired supplies were listed as medicinal. Said Major Maurice Campbell, New York Prohibition Administrator, "I will cooperate with Commander Byrd in any way I can. ... I will sign the necessary papers...
Pathfinder. Explorer Byrd pioneers for Science. For glory, adventure, curiosity, many another man has pushed toward the poles. Among them...