Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They climbed the steep ascent of Logan, triumphant over gravity, Zero (4° to 32° below), tempests, blizzards, "monstrous ice-cliffs and blocks of fantastic shapes with overhanging masses." Scaling one peak only to find one 600 ft. higher looming beside them, they toiled 1,000 feet down, then hacked footholds up to the true peak. They stood for an hour on a ledge, a yard wide, looking off over a billowing sea of clouds punctured by glacier-streaming peaks. They saw their own shadows moving in a rainbow 19,800* ft. above the sea-floors of the world...
...Bowdoin slaved over their vessel's propeller, smashed by floating ice. Hindered by tides, they ultimately accomplished a substitution by placing empty casks under the stern...
...water, which registered 52°, though it had been free of ice only a fortnight (TIME, July 20), was found suitable for hasty plunging, much to the astonishment of gaping Eskimos who, though they gain their living by cruising about in precarious kyaks (canoes), have no skill at natation...
Beyond Cape Harrigan, as far as a powerful telescope could take the eye to sea, vast ice floes stretched-the densest in years, according to local fishermen. At Cape Mugford, the Bowdoin's propeller was damaged...
...Kansas City, one Lionel J. Chapman, rich dairyman, was prostrated by the heat. Alarmed, he caused a refrigerator car to be filled with ice, installed other conveniences, got in himself, started for Canada with his physician...