Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speakers Committee has charge of distributing volunteer speakers on various matters of interest. The Library Committee has charge of the special loan books. With its activities concentrated in the summer for the most part, the Missions Committee has charge of sending students to Labrador. Then there are also the Handbook Committee and the Information Committee, always ready to answer any questions about the University and about the surrounding towns
Continued fog, and the necessity of signing WPA authorizations, obliged the President to give up visiting the Labrador coast, turn back across the Gulf of St. Lawrence, head for Annapolis and Washington...
Still spry at 74, Labrador Doctor Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell sailed again last week for the desolate spot of rock (population 4,264) which he has nursed, fed, guided for half a century...
...bergs are fragments of the mile-thick ice sheet which covers most of Greenland, sends glaciers down to the coast where huge chunks break off. Bergs "calved" on Greenland's west coast are first carried by a northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter in Baffin Bay and Labrador, and because the cold water of the Labrador...
...last concert, given before a crowd of over a thousand, was broadcast over short wave station W1XAL and carried to all parts of the world. Harvard men in Cartwright, Labrador, 1500 miles north of Boston, reported hearing the program...