Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found records of former Arctic explorers, including the lining of a cap left by Elisha Kent Kane in 1853, and a record reading "All Well." He was the first to reach and explore the northern, eastern, and southern shores of North Cornwall and the first to reach Finlay Land, seen some sixty years ago by the Franklin Search Expedition. The trip upon which he will embark in June will be for the purpose of investigating southwestern Greenland, a land about which mystery clings even now. About 1000 A.D. this section of Greenland was inhabited by some 7,000 Norsemen...
...solace his lonely hours? And what of the house-to-house pedlar, is he to have no bundle of holy trac's to protect his vitals from the bullets of the revenue officers? These men deserve all the pity they can get, for they are strangers in their native land, pursued relentlessly, and now and then successfully, by the minions...
...treated in the proper spirit. Now here, the sociological import was considerable, really; intensely interesting to scientific students of these matters. . . ." ¶(Papers of The New York Herald-Tribune stamp): "Well, the conservative, law-abiding, well-to-do citizen wants to be kept abreast of the justice of the land. They discuss these cases down at the Stock Exchange, at lunch. Anyway, all the other papers...
Beyond the polar seas, beyond the flows of ice and snow, lies a blind spot on the map, a never-never land to the explorers of the past. Peary, Scott and Stefanson have gone on to a greater discovery and the land of the Northern mysteries is still left untouched to challenge such men as Amundson, McMillan, and Olgarssor to add the last chapter to the history of continental discovery...
They are to race for the honor of their nations and the finest prize that the world offers. But ahead lies all the danger of the North and the terror of living burial in an unmarked frozen grave. They go to seek a land of vision, a continent that no one has yet beheld, peopled possibly, with an unknown race and covered with a strange vegetation...