Word: longyear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...took a while, pretty much the whole longyear of me trying to overcome my disgust at thetypes of people I was with and the type of personI was becoming, to reconcile myself to that factthat what I really most wanted was just to be, andto be with my real friends...
...monthly $37.14, his wife must baby-sit. Professor G. A. Schmidt, author of six textbooks on agriculture, has worked as an 80/-an-hour land appraiser, and Entomologist Miriam A. Palmer, an expert on aphids, receives only $39.97 a month after 48 years of service. Professor Burton O. Longyear, who founded the department of forestry, last year spent the last of his life's savings ($5,000) on his wife's doctor's bills; now, at 85, he has nothing left to live on except $46.73 a month...
Late in September 1941 the Germans moved in, made an air base at Longyear City, from which they could harass Allied shipping to Murmansk. Six months later a Norwegian force returned. Eighty-two of them in an icebreaker and a fishing vessel crawled up Green Fjord, where they were sighted and attacked by German Condors. One ship was sunk, the other set afire. Survivors climbed out of the subfreezing water on to the ice and got ashore at Barentsburg, carrying their wounded, 15 skis, a few rifles and a single, broken lamp...
Using the salvaged lamp, the Norwegians signaled a wandering Catalina of the British Coastal Command, and on June 2 a British force arrived with supplies. The reinforced Norwegians moved against Longyear City. The Germans had gone. Since then drear, desolate Spitsbergen has been in Allied hands...
...Government), William Lewis Hewes, Jr. (Economics), Robert Kagan (Area of Social Science), Frederick Franz Maximilian Kempner (Literature), Lewis Miles Krohn (Economics), Neunert Frederick Lang (History), Howard Legum (Economics), Joseph Feder Ronald McCrindle (English), Arthur Gordon Maling (Economics), Merton Roland Nachman, Jr., (Government), David Chester Noyes, Jr. (Engineering Sciences), Howard Longyear Palmer (Area of Social Science...