Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred years ago, between 1808 and 1834, an immense, full-bodied man wandered through the wilds of this continent, from the cypress swamps of Florida to Labrador and west to the Rockies. He carried a gun and a sketchbook. His dog padded behind him on the trails...
...Padden of Indian Harbor, Labrador one of the foremost assistants to Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, will be at Phillips Brooks House at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. He will receive all former workers for The Grenfell Missionary and also all men interested in working for the Mission in Newfoundland or Labrador this summer...
...Marching beside me as I debarked last week in Manhattan from England was my latest acquisition, Junever, pedigreed Labrador setter which I bought from the Duke of Connaught for $525. 'Junever,' said I, 'is a good dog for picking up dead birds.' I used Junever while shooting grouse at my Scotland estate. I brought also two chests filled with rare manuscripts valued at $375,000, for the Morgan Library in Manhattan...
...next winter, Captain Donald McMillan visits the frigid shores of Labrador he will conceivably see a few native malamutes mushing in tweed knickers, full dress vests and starched Arrow collars, and touching up their huskies with squash racquets...
MacMillan. Home from Labrador and Greenland, with plans for going back again to spend five years, came Explorer Donald B. MacMillan last week. He had been investigating ruins and legends problematically indicative of Norse settlements in America a thousand years ago. Maine coastal towns turned out to welcome their state's special hero. The Field Museum of Chicago rejoiced at the prospect of receiving a 1,500-pound walrus carcass and other specimens...