Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Specimens from a New Calcite Vein in Medford." professor Palache. "The Supposed Subsidence of the Massachusetts Coast." Professor D. W. Johnson. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...school for girls, which was opened in the autumn of '55. This task of a handsome young fellow instructing a lot of girls who were just beginning to live was embarrassing no doubt, but he got through that trial well. After graduating from the Scientific School, he entered the coast survey, and presently turned up in California, where he lived for some time. He had originally meant to be a civil engineer and to go onto some of the railroads, thinking the west a great field, but he inevitably drifted into his father's interests, came home in the autumn...
...February 26 they found themselves 67 miles from the coast, and as the "Nimrod" was to sail north on March 1, it was necessary for them to make long forced marches. The next day they made 24 miles, but in the evening Marshall, one of the party, became so exhausted that they left him behind with a companion, while Shackleton and another man pushed on alone. They marched almost all night and early the next afternoon felt the ice heaving under their feet. A little while later they reached open water, but as it was foggy they could not discover...
...from the "Nimrod" set out to return for Marshall, and the night passed on the journey was the first in which he had slept since he had begun the forced march. Early the next morning they set out again and on the following night were back at the coast with Marshall and his companion. During the last afternoon a blizzard had been raging and the "Nimrod" had moved to shelter when they arrived. However, they managed by means of calcium torches to attract her attention and at 10 o'clock in the evening were all safely on board...
...Ernest Shackleton's visit to Harvard this afternoon is an occasion of unusual interest. On October 29, 1908, he and his party of three left the Antarctic coast for the unknown interior, and after an advance which brought them within 111 miles of the pole, they were forced to turn back, having nearly exhausted the food supply and reached the limit of their endurance. When the coast was nearly reached with all of the party more or less incapacitated, one of the men was overcome with sickness. He was left with a companion, while Lieutenant Shackleton and the fourth member...