Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with Richard Evelyn Byrd, retired near-admiral, U.S.N...
...rotundity. Many wise men have tried, but wiser Dr. Voliva refuses to be shown. He argues that if the world were round, trains and boats could not make the uphill grade of its curvature; that people at the bottom would tumble off. When he heard that Commander Byrd planned to explore the South Pole he sent many warnings that the rim of the world is a hazardous place. Now he says that Commander Byrd was indeed lucky that a big wall of ice hemmed him in so he could not venture too far, tumble into eternity. He also holds that...
...gatherings?15,000 public school superintendents and teachers, members and associates of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association?assembled last week in De- troit. With them they had ten gold-lettered, morocco-bound volumes containing more than 4,500 tribute-letters to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, written by enthusiastic U. S. school children. Though no prize had been offered, the idea, suggested by the N. E. A., inspired some 40.000 youngsters to send in essays, drawings, illuminated scrolls, a model of the Admiral's City of New York carved in laundry soap. A 6th-grader wrote...
Hero of the sessions was Admiral Byrd, to whom an evening (mottoed "Character in Action") was devoted...
President Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor of the National Geographic Society: "No explorer ever before has received such a national tribute from school children as you have enabled our young people to present to Admiral Byrd. . . . His name will ever live as the greatest pioneer navigator of the air, as does that of Magellan as the greatest pioneer navigator of the farthermost seas...