Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supporting Peary's dash for the Pole. According to Kudlooktoo, Marvin suddenly "sordlo ilisimajungnaersimasok" ["was like a sane man who for the moment was without the use of his faculties"]. Marvin, Kudlooktoo alleges, ordered Inukitsoq to get off the dog sledge, and proposed to leave him on the ice to die without food-all for no apparent reason. Kudlooktoo thereupon shot Marvin with a rifle, to save Inukitsoq, and the two Eskimos returned to Peary's base claiming that Marvin had been drowned...
...must keep on being surprised. . . . Perhaps these men with pencils would be surprised if they saw a great island covered with seals like flies on a lump of sugar. Perhaps they would get stuck if they had to walk for five days without food through a world of blue ice lighted by stars as big as melons. Perhaps they would shake, as he was shaking now, if they saw cold fire creep across heaven and throw, with a noise like tearing silk, luminous sheets of red, yellow and green into a void without bounds, over a world without warmth, through...
Expeditions are not what they used to be. Sail to the ice-studded shores of Greenland and you can still telephone your wife by wireless. Trek to the heart of Africa and you will not leave the automobile behind you; in fact, a Cape-to-Cairo airplane may pass overhead any day. Last month the British press announced the death of Charles St. John, 86, last white survivor of Missionary David Livingstone's seven-year expedition to find the watershed between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika, central Africa (1866-73). Concurrently there were reports of modern expeditions, coming...
...best editorial verbiage. Walrus, seals, narwhal and varied seafowl have fallen to the voyagers' trusty guns, a high moment coming last fortnight when the Putnams, father and son, and Dan Streeter touched off their rifles simultaneously into the bulk of a polar bear on a cake of pan ice. David Putnam, 13, veteran of William Beebe's last Galapagos cruise, had been spending days in the crow's-nest sighting for bear; it is unlikely that he will neglect to mention the episode in his projected treatize: David Goes to Greenland...
...them marched 1,600 citizen soldiers. Then Mr. Coolidge proceeded to inspect the camp in general and the mess hall in particular. The mess sergeant gave him the day's menu: fresh fruit, ham and eggs, roast beef, baked potatoes, string beans, corn on the cob, raisin bread, ice cream. The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that." The punctual limousine appeared, started toward White Pine Camp.... Suddenly, Presidential Chauffeur Robinson jammed on his brakes. From the car leapt Richard Jervis of the U. S. Secret Service. He shouted: "Dr. Coupal! Dr. COUPAL...