Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard so much, was certainly a queer place. All the buildings were square and pointed and dirty. All the people were sahibs and mem-sahibs, but somehow quite different from those in far-off India. None of them wore those spotless white clothes which they wore in the land of Ind. More strange, many seemed very poor, and none of them seemed to have any servants following them. The men that he mixed with at the university and at the Inns of Court eyed him strangely. When he spoke to them, which was rarely, they were urbane but aloof, cold...
This is the first time in the history of Japan that a son of an Emperor has ever sought learning in a foreign land, although numbers of the aristocracy have recently done...
...lead" in the pack ice. Down nosed Amundsen in the N-25, the N24 following suit. Suddenly, a break in the steady roar of the motors, as startling as a shout, smote Amundsen's ear. N-25's engine had died. The pilot, Riiser-Larsen, now must land wherever he could. God help him ! He made the water, but not the main "lead." The plane torpedoed into a hummock, quivered and lay still, stuck fast...
Explorer Donald B. MacMillan was ci the same opinion. In the midst of final preparations for his own flight to the Pole and to fabulous Crocker Land, MacMillan outlined the rescue work he proposed to carry out before any explorations. After making a base at Etah, Greenland, early in August, he would, he said, take two planes to Cape Columbia to see if Amundsen had reached there. If he had not, the planes would then fly on the line from Cape Columbia...
...Mass.) Academy. In 1908, he had his chance and went with Peary on the first expedition ever to come to "the top of the world." He has done much ethnological study among the Labrador Esquimaux, has taught Anthropology at Bowdoin. In 1920, he commanded his own expedition to Baffin Land, his most important discovery being the presence of vast coal beds in the far north. It was partly because of such deposits, partly because of the possible commercial value of airplane depots, that MacMillan, last week, asked the U. S. State Department to inform him what attitude the Government might...