Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men are known as "waps" in Labrador. At least such is the official title of four Harvard students who have been with Dr. Grenfell's mission in Labrador for the past summer. According to G. D. Krumbhaar '26, the foreman of the "waps", their job is anything from scrubbing floors in the hospitals to preaching sermons in the churches...
...over the world are attracted to Dr. Grenfell's mission, which has now been in activity for over 30 years. In 1892 Dr. Grenfell's attention was called to the poor living conditions existing among the thousands of fishermen who with their families and goods travel to the Labrador coast to fish for cod. In this large colony of fisher folk, however, there are no opportunities for medical or educational attention, and it was to meet this great need for medical service, that Dr. Grenfell equipped his first hospital, which took the form of a small schooner...
...ship, the mission has grown to have four hospitals on land, and in addition to this a number of churches, schools, and libraries. It is in order to run these establishments that the mission each year calls for volunteers who pay their own expenses to come to Labrador and work as "waps...
Lieutenants Smith and Nelson, U. S. ''air Magellans," rested in Ivigtut, Greenland, installed new motors in their planes, took test spins, then sat watching the weather. A hurricanic storm had been reported sweeping toward the Labrador coast whither they were bent...
After the storm had broken and the skies had cleared, Lieut. Smith wirelessed Admiral Magruder, commanding the naval patrol fleet, that he and Nelson would hop off for Ice Tickle, two miles east of Indian Harbor. The four ships strung out between Ivigtut and the Labrador coast was notified...