Word: frigidities
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When querted about Admiral Byrd's solitary sally into the frigid wilds. Mr. McCaleb replied. "Personally, I think it is very silly. But of course, it is useless to criticize Admiral Byrd until he has a chance to defend himself. The consensus of opinion among his most intimate friends seems to be that this move was motivated by reasons wholly psychological. If Admiral Byrd's sole reason was to observe human reactions. I would advise him to come back and set up a but on top of Mt. Washington...
...fire died. Dr. Potaka stretched Cameraman Pelter on a table, sliced out his appendix. Badly inflamed, it would have burst by afternoon. A long convalescence was ahead of Joseph Pelter. No matter how warm the patient is kept, said Dr. Potaka, a wound heals slowly in frigid Antartica...
...general, these cold waves are not due to the presence of icebergs as some people would have us believe. As a matter of fact, the arctic region does travel southward during the winter but this has very little part in producing these frigid temperatures we are experiencing. At a height of eight or nine miles above the surface of the earth the temperature is about thirty degrees below zero...
Prince Bismarck received Chancellor Hitler's "observations" on this proposed convention last week in a long code cablegram from the Wilhelmstrasse. Calling his limousine he sped to Whitehall, marched into the office of tall, frigid British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and told him that Germany cannot wait until 1938 before beginning to achieve armament equality with France. At the very least, in Chancellor Hitler's view, the Fatherland should at once be allowed to have "samples" of all armaments now denied her by the Treaty of Versailles; big guns, tanks, battle planes. Finally, even if a four...
...think farming the noblest occupation of man; they were grimly determined that their children should get an education and escape to something better. Vridar was a sensitive, delicate child, subject to convulsions and haunting fears. The sight of blood made him sick. Though he lived on a farm, his frigid mother for a long time succeeded in keeping him ignorant of the simplest biological facts. Vridar took to reading as an escape; much poring over the Bible helped convince him that he had seen a vision, that he would be a prophet...