Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through during its revolution. Commander Byrd will try to find out. He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local ice; and, very importantly, the Antarctic weather. Tremendous winds blow there, influencing the weather of the entire Earth. Cold ocean currents start there, crawl along the ocean floors to the North Pole where they curve upward to cool the relatively warm North Polar waters. Whatever in the Antarctic regions can be seen, measured and studied by the expedition's staff, that will be done...
...Harvard team had as little spirit and as little pride as some of the undergraduate body at Harvard, Yale could crawl to victory on its hands and knees. Fortunately for Harvard's pride, however, that...
...them only served to give them wider circulation. When you reprinted them under the Sister's letter of protest, you marked yourselves as either boors or sympathizers with those verses. Then when another lady writes you to reprove you for your second exhibition of bad taste, you "crawl." There is no other term for it. You defended yourself by pretending you expected the publication of such trash would lead others "to join with TIME in holding them up to odium and detestation." Pray where is the odium you provided? Then you say that when such verses affect a campaign...
...buried survivors made known their whereabouts by tapping. When located they were succored, first by drilling small holes to admit air, next by enlarging the holes until sandwiches and heartening bottles of brandy could be passed in, and finally by excavating and propping up passages through which they could crawl. A few perished, even at this late stage, when some of the propped passageways collapsed. Injured were 30 policemen, soldiers and volunteers; killed none...
...When I was about eight years of age I was greatly frightened by seeing a snake crawl out from behind some furniture in my room. My cries brought the elders, and they assured me that this appearance of a serpent was a good omen-that it meant I would become strong and great. For a time, in my ignorance, I had a worshipful attitude toward snakes...