Word: hardiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indications that the Scott Nunataks, Alexandra and Rockefeller Mountains were island-tops. Meanwhile Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, looking for earth and rocks to dig, with George (''Mike") Thorne of Chicago (rescuer of Boy Scout Paul Siple last summer and regarded as perhaps the hardiest man in the Byrd Expedition) and John S. O'Brien, tried to climb Liv Glacier up which Byrd's plane flew to the South Pole. Thwarted, they attacked windy Heiberg Glacier...
...scenic grandeur the perpetually snowcapped peaks of Ecuador easily eclipse the Swiss Alps-but only hardiest humans have ever glimpsed Ecuador's grandest vastitudes. Historically the city and the civilization at Quito antedate Columbus and hark back to glorious Inca times. Politically the Republic of Ecuador has been unfortunate. President after President has seized office by violence. Eleven Constitutions have been adopted. Today President Isidro Ayora knows that he is at the beck of an aristocratic and military dictatorship, headed by the potent General Gobez...
These statistics, presented last week by President Bayard Foster-Pope of Stone & Webster & Blodgett, amazed the hardiest of investment observers...
Second only to moose in size, elk thrive on less food than any other deer. They are the hardiest deer, are immune to hoof and mouth disease, Texas fever, lumpy jaw and black tongue. They have "a quiet and contented nature." They dress heavier than any other meat animal. Their meat is considered by many an epicure superior to any meat on the market. It is virtually non-existent commercially, brings $1.50 a lb., and New York City alone would have consumed 3,000 elk carcasses last autumn had they been available. Laboratory tests show that elk flesh...