Word: ices
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exciting Episode occurred soon after the eventful flight. A bit of the ice barrier, to which the Byrd ships were moored, cracked off. The ships lurched violently. Benjamin Roth, aviation mechanic, was thrown into the water. He drifted away from the ship among cakes of ice. Commander Byrd himself jumped overboard to rescue him. After ten minutes, during which Byrd failed to reach Roth, three other men in a boat fished first Roth, then Byrd, out of the water...
...They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr.,* one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund. They named one peak for the expedition's cook, George Tennant, and seeing a bay in the ice barrier, "said Commander Byrd, "to name it Hal Flood Bay, after my mother's brother...
Garrison, who has performed brilliantly at center on the University sextet this season, was first reported disabled for the season, but his rapid recovery has insured his return to the first lineup within a short time. He was on the ice for a short time Monday but was advised to wait until today to return for regular practice. The Dartmouth game on February 16 will probably see him in the opening lineup if he is not able to perform against the St. Nicholas Club sextet on the coming Saturday...
...mark the reopening of relations between Harvard and Pennsylvania in hockey, the two teams not having met for a number of years. Pennsylvania was formerly a regular opponent on the Crimson schedule, but inadequate facilities for holding practice sessions and games forced the Red and Blue to discontinue the ice sport for the past few years. With the erection of a modern arena in Philadelphia, however, the sport has once again been taken up, and this year the Pennsylvania sextet has scheduled games with many of the leading colleges...
...Hugo von Eckener, in 1930. "Arctic research will be the prime consideration," said Dr. Nansen. When only 26, he achieved the first crossing of Greenland. In 1892, he tried to reach the North Pole in a peculiar, round-shaped boat named Fram; three years later he was crossing the ice on foot to the highest latitude then attained; a year later he was picked up by the Jackson- Harmsworth expedition. Recently, he has been more famed as a diplomat and relief expert-half Viking, half Herbert Hoover...