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Only a handful of men have ever gone poking into Antarctica. It is the coldest, loneliest, least known of all the continents; even its coastline has remained an uncompleted puzzle to mapmakers. Last week, a stubby little ship steamed into New York Harbor with some of the missing pieces...
Tilden v. the Women. Big Bill is cattiest about the game's two greatest women-Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills. On Lenglen: "Her costume struck me as a cross between a prima donna's and that of a street walker." On Wills: "I regard her as the coldest, most self-centered, most ruthless champion ever known to tennis...
...refusal of the Cambridge Red Cross to abandon the Club 100 as their meeting place today, the University-wide Committee's picketers completed the coldest five hours in the eight-day tenure of the line at 12:45 o'clock this morning...
...world's coldest regions are areas near the poles where there is little or no sun in winter to warm the air, little wind to bring in warm air, and few clouds to screen the ground from outer space. Under these conditions, the air near the surface loses heat by radiation, often getting considerably colder than the atmosphere far above...
Over the poles, the troposphere goes up 14 to 15 kilometers (9 miles) above sea level. Over the equator it goes higher: 17 kilometers (10½ miles). The higher the troposphere rises the colder it gets. So the coldest air temperatures (about -132° F.) are above the hot equator. High above the North Pole, it probably gets no colder than...