Word: glaciered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight, some 2,500 of the quiet, precise persons whose natural element is card catalogs, rubber stamps, sharpened pencils and orderly multitudes of books, gazed out of the windows of special railroad trains at the Rocky Mountains. At Lake Louise, Banff, Glacier National Park and other places they had located in bold print on the atlas, the travelers emerged from their cars, sighed with admiration, took snapshots, bought and addressed post-cards-"Dear Harriet: Just dandy out here. Wish you were with us. Arrived at 4:37 and leave tomorrow morning at 9:22. Love to all. Edith...
...Pinchot award was for long service in the preservation of natural resources and domain. - Mr. Grinnell was honored for "conspicuous success" in securing Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks to the public...
Conditions. In 1914, it took Macmillan 33 days to cross the great glacier that is Ellesmere Land, between Greenland and Axel Heiberg Land. In airplanes, these laborious 580 miles could be traversed in less than five hours. It took him a week to push out on the floes 150 miles with dog and sledge. The planes now at his disposal will have a daily cruising range of about 1,200 miles...
Undoubtedly we are vanquished, overcome by that glacier of tradition, which defies us. But the reviewer may triumph in the end by reproaching the Lampoon as if it were a small...
...United States, to whomever it might concern, it was proclaimed that Calvin Coolidge, by virtue of his office and powers conferred upon him, did set aside 1,820 square miles of the public domain and consecrate it to the uses of a national monument, to be known as Glacier Bay National Monument. The new monument, on the south-east coast of Alaska, includes several tidewater glaciers...