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...Christianize the Eskimos in 1764. Like the whites, the Eskimos are content to hug the coast. Their needs are few: cod, salmon, trout and seabirds for food, seal for their blubber lamps. They neither wash nor cook, and they have no need for roads. The sea is their kayak highway in summer; during the long winter, transport by husky-drawn komatik (sled) is fast and cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NEWFOUNDLAND: Floating Poll | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Although a man of action, who would rather sail a kayak or tame an outlaw horse than see a movie, the general who came to Okinawa was not a restless man. He could sit calmly in a leather chair aboard his command ship, listening to the reports coming in, and occasionally giving an order. If he had his way, man would stay awake 24 hours a day. But since man cannot, he has learned the trick of sleeping for five or ten minutes, then coming suddenly wide awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Buck's Battle | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...President's young cousin, Alexander Grant Jr., kayak champion of the East coast, is shooting the Colorado rapids from Lee's Ferry. He hopes to complete the two-week adventure in Lake Meade Aug. 1. Only mishap the first week was being once tossed ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 4, 1941 | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...alone like a Greenlander in my kayak, solitary upon the great sea of life," explained Kierkegaard. He cultivated a melancholy "inwardness," saw Christianity everywhere as passionless, sterile, soft. He discerned three stages of experience: 1) esthetic, 2) ethical, 3) religious. Progress through them comes only with inward struggle, firm decision. Essence of Christian religiousness, to him, is suffering. So real Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Dane | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...foldboat is an Americanization of the German "flatboot" or collapsible rubber kayak, of which there are hundreds of thousands in Europe. Now, however, the foldboat seems to be one of the few German importations genuinely welcome in this country. Mr. Kissner, a pioneer in the manufacture of these sleek "downhill yachts," has gathered together a valuable storehouse of information on the technical and geographical aspects of this speedier form of canoeing. It is altogether necessary for already-enthusiastic fold-boaters, and is likely to make many new converts to the sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 6/9/1940 | See Source »

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