Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...island. In 1867, Captain Thomas Long, U. S. citizen, sailed around and named it. Just before the War, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who recently announced his plans to drift across the Arctic in a tub-shaped boat (TIME, Jan. 14), was wrecked there. He walked across the ice to Siberia. Almost half his party died on Wrangel Island. In 1921, four men and Ada Blackjack, Eskimo sempstress, tried to live on the island. All but Miss Blackjack died. And dead, probably, are the Russian colonists sent there two years ago. A Russian relief ship, the Stavropol, tried to reach them...
...University hockey squad will take possession of the Boston Garden ice this afternoon for the first practice since the 5 to 1 victory over the Boston Athletic Association six on January 16. With the exception of J. B. Garrison '31, brilliant first string center, who has been out of the lineup with a broken wrist since the New Year's Eve game with Toronto, all the regular puckmen are expected to be on hand to herald the reopening of the hockey season...
...racing is a necessity, not a sport, in Polar regions or across the drifting ice of Norton Sound in Alaska where Seppalla became famous for his five and a half day mush to Nome in 1925 with diphtheria serum, beating the record run for 655 miles by three and a half days. Balto, whom Gunnar Kasson drove on the race to Nome, also dragged Roald Amundsen north when he planned his polar flight...
...squad was called to take him from his fourth-floor home to a hospital; the delay was considerable because John Linder weighed 375 pounds. Last summer, he weighed only 341 pounds when he easily won the prize for fattest boy and ate his share of 15,000 quarts of ice cream, 10,000 quarts of milk and five tons of crackers at a Tammany children's party in Central Park (TIME, June...
...Woman Skater, who is a student at Radcliffe, will be the Prima Ballerina of the evening. Miss Vinson placed second in the world championship competition last year. Her corps de Ballet will be composed of Boston debutantes and sub-debutantes, who are reported to cut notable figures on the ice...