Word: goale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nowadays polar explorers have airplanes, radio; reach their goal more quickly, safely, let the world know where they are, what they are doing. But the Poles were not "discovered" from the air, and the news came back no faster than the dogs and men who pulled the sledges. In 1909 Commander Robert Edwin Peary reached the North Pole by dogsled, though Frederick Albert Cook (TIME, March 31) claimed he had anticipated him; in 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott got to the South Pole only to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it by a few weeks. Scott...
...some, socialism is blackness and despair: to others, it is the shining goal of progress, perhaps when the two get together they will see more of both light and shadow. In the meantime, the spectacle of grown up children fearing the dark and imagining things to be which are not, is humorous, perhaps ironic...
...restoration of order and unity to China. It is the work of the late Sun Yat Sen, the revolutionary leader who was able to understand both the past glories and the future problems of China and who mapped out a scheme of national development that is the goal of the Nanking regime. Even the generals that revolt against its authority claim as their motive a greater devotion to the principles of Sun Yat Sen than that possessed by the present rulers, for after twenty years of disorder China is weary of supporting dictatorships with no other justification than military strength...
Thou, America, enshrined, In ev'ry patriot soul, To olden greeds and hatreds blind, In unity thy strength shall bind The nations that they find In brotherhood their goal...
Score--U. S. Marines 26, Harvard 0, Touchdowns--Gerard 2, McCaffery, Presley, Wingo. Converted goals--Zimmerman 4, Penalty goal--Zimmerman. Referee--J. F. Jennings, Linesmen--Lt. J. J. Tavern, and J. McCarthy. Time--Two 35-minute periods...