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When the northbound traveler invades the six million square miles of the Arctic Circle, he soon leaves the great timberlands behind and enters a region where the last, sparse outposts of birch, spruce and cottonwood gradually fade into the boundless levels of the tundra. Here is the world which "knows but two seasons: winter and August"; here great rivers of North America and Asia drain away and congeal into the titanic ice-blocks of the Arctic Ocean; here (and not at the North Pole) the thermometer has touched its recorded lowest (93° below zero) and the milk of Siberia...
Coffee to a smell did fade...
...born, and that the difference between a great and a merely good passer is in the eyes. Chapp's brown eyes, in one panoramic glance, spot his receivers tearing downfield and the defenders rushing in to nail him. Chapp makes fine use of his blockers, sensing when to fade deep or step up inside to fire the ball. Like a good baseball catcher, he throws off his right ear, with a snap motion...
...least the fans did not fade with the gridders and the northward poles. Employing the phalanx principle first unveiled by a Macedonian scatback named Alex in a crucial intersectional away game on Turkish Turf, the local partisans were dedicated to the proposition: "they shall not pass...
Said Willys-Overland's Chairman-President James D. Mooney: "People cannot and will not pay premium prices for automobiles. When a certain level is reached, business will begin to fade out rapidly. ... I believe the showdown will come much sooner than expected...