Word: glaciered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preface to the book would indicate that it is little more than the circular of some railroad company advertising the glories of Glacier National Park; but, since few people read prefaces, it will not prevent their going farther and seeing that "Old, Old, Old Andrew Jackson" and "A Curse for the Saxaphone" will mysteriously appeal to their aesthetic tastes as well as amuse and stir them. On the surface, there are few signs that there is any aesthetic content there. The best things in this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either...
This year Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University will try to destroy icebergs at their source, in the Greenland glaciers. Here the ice cap is 7,000 feet thick. Vast bits break off at the sea edges to float south to the Newfoundland banks as bergs. Dr. Barnes hopes to smash the glacier edges with thermite, a chemical which develops enormous heat in contact with ice.* (TIME, March...
...movies will be chiefly Glacier Park, of the animal life in Yellowstone Park, and of Mt. Rainier. As an innovation, color pictures of the Grand Canyon will be shown. There will also be a Harold Lloyd comedy. "Never Weaken." This is a re-issue of one of the first of the comedies which made Harold Lloyd famous as a comedian. Music for the evening will be furnished by Bowers' Venice-Lido Orchestra, conducted by R. S. Bowers...
...Iselin will lead a party of seven men on an expedition to the northeastern part of Labrador this summer to perform experiments in oceanography, and to study the flowers and fish in that region which entirely escaped the glacier. The work will be under the direction of Dr. Henry Bigelow, Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and of Professor M. L. Fernald of the Gray Herbarium...
...three main purposes of the expedition are to measure and take cross-sections of the Labrador Current, to bring back flowers from the Torngat region, which escaped the glacier many thousands of years ago, and to determine the nature of the fish in the more northern fjords. Iselin and Keogh will take oceanographic sections of the Labrador Current to try to determine what causes it and where it comes from and goes to. Drift bottles will be set and cards put inside. They will ask the finders to mail them to Dr. Bigelow and say where they were found...