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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will Geologist Lawrence M. Gould and Surveyor John S. O'Brien find rocks and fossils giving a clue to the nature of life on Antarctica before the age of ice commenced...
...Home Life. Terrible are the winds and temperatures of Antarctica. On many a winter's day, explorers shiver in weather 70 or 80 degrees below zero, no degrees below freezing. For the foundations of their six houses, they must use ice. Gales will blow great banks of snow against doors and windows...
Gourmets can roll their tongues over chocolate yeast cakes (Chocolate Yeast Co.); two tons of ham, three tons of bacon (Armour & Co., etc.); Sumoro orange juice (Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.); popcorn (Excel Electric Co.); Life Savers (Life Savers, Inc.); cough drops (William H. Luden, Inc.); 1,500 Ibs. of kippered herring, two tons of corned shoulder, two tons of corned spare rib, two tons of pork sausage, etc., etc. And no toothaches will mar their pleasure, since every explorer has dutifully attended a dental clinic, where even the suspicion of a cavity threatened the loss of a tooth...
...Significance. In consciously picturesque manner, Author Prezzolini quickens hazy impressions of the man Machiavelli, details a rather commonplace life in a rich setting of mediaeval Florence, declares nothing too trivial to report of so great a man. But the essence of that greatness, to wit, the political theory which influenced Napoleon, Mussolini, remains unanalyzed but for the textbook generalities...
...life was so hated and reviled was ever so lamented and honored at his death.' " Hated in life for his stern unfriendliness, reviled for advocating measures that his party did not support, Sir Robert Peel was honored at death for sacrificing popular favor and party goodwill to the welfare of the nation. That welfare he fostered by an impressive array of reforms-most of them in the face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal...