Word: journey
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Died. Sir Douglas Mawson, 76, Australian explorer of the Antarctic, longtime (1920-52) professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Adelaide; in Adelaide. Born in Yorkshire, Douglas Mawson went to Australia as a child, made his first journey to Antarctica in 1907 under Ernest Shackleton, was one of three men to reach the south magnetic pole. Leading his own expedition in 1911, he discovered George V Coast; and on one of the most legendary Antarctic journeys, he was the only survivor among three men, at one point had to stew his sledge dogs to stay alive...
...starred Vanguard, pushed the vehicle to 188 miles above the earth while small vernier rockets, set askew, made it spin on its axis at no r.p.m. The function of this spin-stabilization, like the spin of a rifle bullet, was to keep the vehicle from tumbling on its journey through space...
...Klondike. Preachers, policemen, doctors quit their callings and headed for the bitter North. The mayor of Seattle, in San Francisco for a convention, "did not bother to return home, but wired his resignation." From New York came 500 women, mostly widows, by steamer around the Horn. After a fearsome journey, they reached Seattle broke, their hopes of marrying sourdough millionaires shattered...
Galbraith, who recently returned from a two and one-half month trip through Latin America, discounted claims that the problems in Nixon's "unhappy journey of last spring" were the result of a deeper resentment of the United States. "We do ourselves serious injustice if we seek to explain away a strong popular dislike for Mr. Nixon by saying it applies to the country as a whole...
...villa, a temple 40 ft. square was partly constructed, and its inner sanctuary was prepared to receive the dead. The bodies of the master and his wife, sealed into lead coffins, were lowered into the earth. Food and drink were put into the grave as provisions for the journey to the isles of the dead. Two knives and two spoons were placed neatly beside the coffins. "It looked like a picnic basket." said Meates. "laid out for these two individuals...