Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That Cook used a wrong formula for computing the elevation...
...That Cook could not possibly have carried on two dog sleds enough food for three men and the dogs for 82 days of travel...
...Meantime Cook had arrived in Copenhagen, where he received a tremendous welcome, including a gold medal from the Royal Danish Geographical Society. A handful of exploring notables-Roald Amundsen, Knud Rasmussen, Otto Sverdrup, Major-General Adolphus Washington Greely-favored Cook's claim over Peary's. But in the U. S. the National Geographic Society assembled a quorum of experts who gave the decision to Peary, and a bigger gold medal (four inches across). The controversy has not yet died...
...Cook partisans have argued...
...That Peary, a man of 53, by no means rugged, minus several toes lost on a previous expedition, could not possibly have sledged 150 airline miles in 56 hours over rough pack ice; that Cook did not claim much more than 15 miles...