Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...command of the Ross was Captain Oscar Nilsen, who began his whaling under the man who saved the industry from extinction. Modern whaling dates back to Christmas Eve, 1904, when Captain Carl Anton Larsen of Sandefjord, Norway, brought the first whale oil of the season into Grytviken, a bleak whaling station on the Island of South Georgia east of Cape Horn. Captain Larsen, already an oldster in the trade, realized that whaling was doomed unless new grounds were discovered. The Arctic, hunted for centuries, was nearing exhaustion. With great difficulty he raised enough capital for an expedition to the Weddell...
...pack into the Ross Sea* where no explorer had been for a decade. Thence he pounded his way into the Bay of Whales where six years later Richard Evelyn Byrd established a base at Little America. Once again Captain Larsen made whaling history, by arriving on a Christmas Eve. Four days later he took the first whale ever shot by gun in the Ross...
...weeks the General Commission of the Disarmament Conference is scheduled to totter into its grave at Geneva. Last week, on the eve of the obsequies, the following moves for and against armaments made news...
...horns and kettle drums were still, Conductor Hanson held up the concert until Werner Janssen came down the aisle for a bow, his long head bobbing in front of him, his right arm waving thanks. For Janssen the Rochester concert meant most as an anniversary. New Year's Eve in New York, his first serious music, had its premiere there under Hanson five years...
...graduation he went to Boston, sold sheet music by day, earned $3 a night playing the piano for Leo Reisman at the Hotel Brunswick. From there he went to New York, started writing musical shows. But his ambition reached higher and his energy was tremendous. New Year's Eve in New York was his lucky piece. He went to Cleveland to hear Nikolai Sokoloff play it, promptly got a radio job conducting the Guardian Trust Orchestra. In Cleveland he heard that he had won the three-year Prix de Rome fellowship. His sister Dorothy had sent New Year...