Word: capt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knowing Capt. Wilkins for a persistent and resourceful man (he plans to live in the polar regions largely on what game can be shot), and knowing Chief Pilot Eielson for an indefatigable flyer (singlehanded he overcame a hundred vicissitudes of the North, flew 60,000 unaccompanied miles in the Alaskan air mail service), U. S. airmen had no doubt that the expedition would be pushed ahead notwithstanding...
Score--Yale 10 1-2, Harvard 8 1-2. Goals--Folger 4, Ferguson 4, Adams 2, Clark 4, Cotton 3, Gibb, Remick. Time 4 7 1-2 minute periods. Referee--Capt. Gates...
...over 500 explorers which culminated in the last climb of Irvine and Mallory who after coming within 800 feet of their goal were overwhelmed by the snow, proved of high value from the standpoint of the naturalist and scientist although Mt. Everest was not conquered. The pictures taken by Capt. Noel in his official capacity contain kaleidoscopic records of people and customs still unknown even to the professional travelogue lecturers...
When asked for a short resume of the outstanding features in the trip which will be pictured at the Union, Capt. Noel described the story of the trip in brief as it is here given...
...will ever know the end they met," Capt. Noel concluded swiftly. "Another expedition is being planned for next year and it may be that the top will be safely reached,--and that the climbers will survive their triumph...