Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the primary purpose of the current Byrd and Rome expeditions is scientific, Professor Rice sees the southernmost continent as more than just a chunk of ice which can "tell us something about the structure of the earth...
...talk to the 22 year-old College junior were his mother and younger brother, Thomas, on the night of January 23 at 10 o'clock in the family's Boston residence at 184 Beacon Street. The family's greatest fear is that Sylvester Gardiner may have gone through treacherous ice after he left them, possibly to indulge in moonlight skating on the Charles River...
...light could be shed last night on Gardiner's movements for the next hour and a half. But at 10 o'clock he surprised his family in the living room of his home, and asked hastily about the whereabouts of his ice skates. He departed without spending more than a few minutes...
Whether he actually walked out with his ice skates draped around his neck, intending to use them that night, or whether he was merely locating them for a future spin, an anxious family count of several pairs of ice skates in the house closets has failed to ascertain...
...Antarctic may even develop into another Klondike, the professor muses, although the only "gold" discovered so far has been black. Transporting coal across the miles of treacherous ice would not be profitable, he says, but if gold or uranium should be found in the region, the race would...