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Word: ices (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pelham, N. Y. last week a tired-looking, mild-mannered oldster of 74 sat at lunch with an explorer whom he had never before met-Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has dreamed for years of traveling under the ice to the North Pole in a submarine. The two talked of the trials & tribulations of men fighting the Arctic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Cook made his own first and only "dash to the Pole." He left the land in March, trekked across the pack ice with only two Eskimos, two sleds, 26 dogs. He claimed that he reached the North Pole on April 21, spent two days taking observations of the sun. On the way back he had a dreadful time, spent the following winter in a cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...week's end, as North Star churned southward, with four feet of Penguin's, bobbed tail still hanging over the rail, Dr. Poulter was pleased with his monster's performance. Whether or not it would negotiate Antarctic ice better than it had U. S. roads, it had pulled in more publicity for an Admiral Byrd expedition than the publicity-wise Admiral himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Monster | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...University, hunched up in a jail bathtub at Baton Rouge, La., tried to commit bloody suicide by slashing his right foot. (It was his second attempt: last July, in the Federal House of Detention at New Orleans, he tried to have bichloride of mercury smuggled to him in an ice cream carton.) Two days later an ambulance carried off ineffectual Convict Smith to Angola State Penitentiary, to begin serving eight to 24 years for forgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Such ear-slitting, said Eliot and Eleanor Clark last week, is no more painful than piercing for old-fashioned earrings. The rabbits are placid and happy, wear warm grey flannel pajamas, take vacations in Europe, occasionally feast on ice cream and cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rabbit Windows | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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