Word: eskimoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know," he said, "Eskimos are so dull they fascinate me. I guess I never told you about my Epic of Nanook bit this summer, did I?" He began stirring his ice briskly and his eyes brightened with a nostalgic glaze. "You know how simple most of the people working in the hotel were--these Iowa farm girls and Utah types--really from the sticks. Well, I told them I was majoring in Eskimo Studies at Harvard. They weren't very impressed and I guess they even thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said...
...girls had been to high school and they knew Ghengis Khan hadn't been defeated by a bunch of Eskimos, so I had to figure out a way for Nanook to lose the battle. 'Well,' I'd tell them, 'You know how much dust there is in China. Nanook's army just couldn't take it and they all got tuberculosis. It was a terrible slaughter from which the Eskimo civilization never recovered.' This satisfied most of them and when I mentioned the names of one or two professors working on the translation they practically worshipped me. Intellectually, you might...
...When those girls got back to Utah or Iowa they would have told their mothers about Nanook and the shining cities. After that, their mothers would have told their husbands, and the husbands probably would have told their friends. Just think of what it could have done for the Eskimo's reputation...
...long trench 20 ft. deep. They roof it temporarily with curved, corrugated sheet metal, and cover the metal with snow. After the snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo. One hundred miles of under-ice highway are now under construction between Thule and Fist Clench, and no blizzard that blows will stop the trucks that...
Died. Peter Freuchen, 71, Danish adventurer, explorer, $80,000 TV quiz winner (The $64,000 Question, The $64,000 Challenge), novelist (Ivalu, Eskimo), autobiographer (It's All Adventure, Vagrant Viking), whose Eskimo-life reporting is considered first-rate popularized anthropology; of a heart attack; at Elmendorf Air Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska. Irascible, impetuous, cantankerous, big (6 ft. 4 in.) Peter Freuchen, descendant of a Danish-Jewish seafaring family, quit medical school for a job at sea, sailed as a stoker, got his first glimpse of Greenland at 20. He returned thereafter with various expeditions, soon learned to talk, live...