Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ronne wiped some geography off the map, too. He reported that the Weddell Islands, which Sir Hubert Wilkins and Ronne thought they had seen from the air, did not exist. And he solved what Rear Admiral Byrd once called "the world's greatest unsolved geographical puzzle": whether a strait between the Ross and Weddell Seas actually divides Antarctica in two. Ronne proved that there is no strait...
...Antarctic is no place for amateurs; and softspoken, leathery Finn Ronne is no amateur. His father was with Roald Amundsen when he discovered the South Pole; and Ronne, brought up in the mountains of Norway, first went to the Antarctic with Rear Admiral Byrd in 1933. When he goes back in a year or two ("There is a lure . . ."), Mrs. Ronne will not be with him. Says she: "Why, I didn't wear a dress the whole time I was there. The next time, I stay home...
COLLEGE PARK, March 30--Harvard and Maryland battled to a 3 to 3, 13-inning tie today at Byrd Stadium. The Crimson had men on first and third with one out in the eleventh, but the next batter, attempting to squeeze in the run, popped to the pitcher, who doubled the runner off third...
...even the Crimson's ace goalie, Barney Bernard, could prevent Maryland's lacrosse team from racking up an 11 to 0 victory over the visitors in Byrd Stadium Tuesday...
...week's end, members of the Southern Governors' Conference loudly announced that things were all wrong. Seven members (six governors and Virginia's Senator Byrd, who represented Governor Tuck) voted to "fight to the last ditch" against the nomination or election of Harry Truman or any other candidate advocating equal rights for Negroes...