Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National Geographic Society (TIME, June 29 et seq.), ordered his two ships on up the Labrador Coast. A stop was made at Domino to take on sealskin boots. Bucking a head wind into Hopedale Harbor, MacMillan learned that the ice had gone out of there only four days before; yet the next day, the wind falling, ravenous clouds of mosquitoes filled the sultry air and fattened on the white men as they fished for trout and salmon, shot seals, took pictures, exhibited their two Navy seaplanes and their radio apparatus to curious Eskimos, visited with the Rev. W. W. Ferret...
...dawn, when newspaper photographers swarmed in to begin the new day with pictures. Sleepy though he was, Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan obligingly posed in the cockpit of the N-25, Rolls-Royce-motored seaplane which had carried the party back to Spitsbergen from a forced bivouac on the ice-floes 157 miles from the Pole...
Kivalina of the Ice Lands was filmed by one Earl Rossman in a two-year expedition to the Arctic. Eskimos are the actors. Here are reindeer without the Santa Claus; an eskimaid eski-mobiling behind some dogs through a 50-below zero blizzard; a full color reproduction of the aurora borealis. It might have been written with an ice-pick on the bleak wall of an igloo, but its impression of tiny men spinning their confused webs against the icy gulfs of immeasurable space registers effectively...
Knowing well that his time would be much occupied when he reached home, Mr. Amundsen soon went below to continue answering a multitude of messages congratulating him upon his safe return from the grip of the north polar ice cap (TIME, June 29). Also he slogged at a book describing his experiences...
...Ice. Six men with a month's rations, 157 miles from the Pole, 450 miles over the Polar ice from the nearest hope of rescue, without dogs, too far north for animal food. They must choose between walking and striving to lift a 6-ton plane onto the ice and clearing a take-off over corrugated ice which might split at any moment. They chose the latter...