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...office, Mr. Springer left. The door was closed. The stenographers and clerks did not hear the lock snap shut. But before Mr. Springer reached the lift the sound of angry voices came from the room. Then, in startling succession, came a fusillade of five shots. The outer office froze into silent, motionless attention. Before it was broken there was a round of five more shots, the sound of glass falling...
...before sighting the glaciers of White Island. To celebrate the finding of land they toasted the King of Sweden and Norway in 1836 wine which he had given them. A month later, although food and ammunition were still plentiful, the men were dead. Guessers last week guessed they 1) froze to death; 2) were poisoned by eating bear liver; 3) were killed by polar bears...
Then, while the House and the other three tellers literally froze in their tracks with horror, Teller Beckett stretched forth a rash hand toward Parliament's most sacred emblem?the Mace...
...quite 300 years ago, in 1653, doughty Oliver Cromwell froze English blood by his terrible command, "Take away that bauble!", and for a time the Mace was taken away. Since then no M. P. upon no matter what provocation has ever removed the Mace?this being the sole prerogative of the Sergeant-at-Arms...
...experienced pilot of the region, became his pilot. Fairbanks, their base, has since become the base of most Alaskan flying. Point Barrow was their jumping point. In 1927 they made a westerly exploratory tour to north of Wrangel Island. Three times their plane came down on drifting ice. Eielson froze his fingers fixing the motor. At the third alighting they abandoned the plane. For 17 days they walked, jumped and crawled over the floes to Beechey Point, east of Point Barrow. Eielson's endurance and ingenuity during that accident kept his friends from desperation in the present situation. Unless...