Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sank his Soviet icebreaker Chelyuskin (TIME, Feb. 26, March 12), jungle-bearded Professor Otto Schmidt has somehow kept his crew alive, fed and sheltered for two months in the - 20°F wilderness of the Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait, while a semicircle of rescuers hovered from Cape Van Karem, Siberia, to Alaska. Last month a rescue plane swooped onto the ice pack, loaded the Chelyuskin's ten women and two babies aboard, got back safely to Cape Wellen, Siberia. Since then the ice pack, twisted by Arctic currents, hammered by icebergs, has begun piling in on itself...
...plane pilots now began a strange race to make most ferry trips, rescue most men. They set their loads down at Cape Van Karem, hastily refueled and tore back to the ice pack. In one day Pilot Molokov made four trips, got 20 villagers. Pilot Kamanin made four, got 18. The population of the village dwindled to 28, to six. Finally the last six were set down at Cape Van Karem. And then the pilots went back for the dogs and such scientific instruments as were worth the haul...
...ugly, very ugly, with bowed shoulders, rather bandy-legged and with an excessive chin. But, gentlemen, he was made by God and when he begins with the cape and when he unfolds his marvelous muleta he reminds us of his divine origin...
...Hard-to-Please" and "Hell-to-Pay." But he was seldom vitriolic. His reviews were famed chiefly for their length (1,250 words, at least), their ornate, old-fashioned sentences, their freshness and independence of viewpoint. Boston knew him for a sputtery, gnomelike person who wore a flowing cape for evening, carried a stout bamboo stick, shunned conversation. He did most of his writing between 3 and 5 a. m., always in longhand on yellow ruled paper. Afternoons saw him in his musty, little Transcript office, painstakingly correcting proof, sorting and editing the world's stage news...
...commercial scale would begin in ten years. Mr. Midgley pointed out that ten years ago no one thought it possible to get bromine from the ocean on a commercial basis. Today his corporation, with Dow Chemical Co., operates a plant south of Wilmington, N. C. on the Cape Fear River which every day sucks in 30,000,000 gal. of sea water from which, with the aid of chlorine and sulphuric acid, it frees 15,000 lb. of bromine (worth 36 cents per lb.) for use in antiknock gasoline...