Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pack ice all the way to the North Pole! Ah, the bit in the teeth; the jump at the starting post in the race for the Arctic! For pack ice is good for radio stations and even landing fields. What a merry mess for the lawyers! If an iceberg with a radio station breaks away and drifts down to Alaska, will "the constitution follow the flag?" The Vagabond chuckles in secret glee. Professor Hopper buttons up his coat again and waves his hand airily. Government 30 has its first laugh of the day. Russia, planning, famine, struggle--but enough. Back...
...daring in playing dangerous sequences without a double, her fondness for being photographed in mountainous scenery, her nickname of "Ölige Ziege" (Oily Goat), impolitely coined by a German cinema critic. In 1933, U. S. audiences were able to see Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during the filming of which she lived in a Greenland tent for four months (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933). The same year, she wrote, directed and acted in The Blue Light, in which magnificent photography of the Dolomites as background for a fairy tale corroborated Leni Riefenstahl's thesis that...
...cows and a 1,200-lb. Guernsey bull named Klondike Iceberg-first bull ever born in Little America; 15 emperor penguins, of which one was decidedly indisposed; the knowledge that seal meat looks like liver, but tastes different; indisputable proof that the common cold and other germs flourish in Antarctica; samples of unidentified bugs which live in snow and melted ice pools; the memory of four months alone in an ice hut, "lonely as hell," studying weather conditions, reading 85 books and letting his hair grow to shoulder-length...
Dashing through the icy upper reaches of the Charles, the first 150 pound crew yesterday hit a monstrous iceberg, and stove a large hole in the boat. Cox Ed Barker steered his craft up to an ice pan, and the crew jumped for shore, only two falling by the wayside...
Morrow Castle. "Twenty-two years ago this month the greatest catastrophe in the history of the seven seas shocked the civilized world. The S.S. Titanic . . . struck a monster iceberg. The tragedy chilled our blood and stirred our hearts. Twenty-two hundred and eight human souls were on board; 1,501 were lost. . . . The great Captain E. J. Smith, as befits the heroism of the sea, stuck to the finish and went down with the ship. . . . His refusing to [save himself] gave even death a redeeming feature...