Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were exploration and sporting events. His conclusion: "When I picture the life in the North and here, I say-my stomach is better off here but my mentality lives its best up there. . . . The inhabitants of the Koyukuk would rather eat beans with liberty, burn candles with independence, and mush dogs with adventure than to have the luxury and the restrictions of the outside world. A person misses many things by living in the isolation of the Koyukuk. but he gains a life filled with an amount of freedom, tolerance, beauty, and contentment such as few human beings are ever...
Died. Balto, 14, famed black, white-footed Alaskan husky, lead dog on the last lap of the mush from Nenana to Nome with diphtheria antitoxin for the 1925 epidemic; of old age; in Cleveland's Brookside Park and Zoölogical Gardens...
...fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush is a word pleasant to the ear, but its connotation is ugly. Beauty of meaning is not sufficient. Mother is one of our most loved words, but it lacks euphony." Meeting in Manhattan's Empire State Building, members of the National Transportation Committee were annoyed by a sound...
...Svetozar will eat-now we can all eat!" was the joyous, famished cry of the other Pribitchevitches. In Belgrade Hospital dauntless old Svetozar Pribitchevitch was propped up in bed by sympathetic nurses. They fed him mush from a bowl. They wiped the old man's chin. When he was discreetly full, they tucked Svetozar Pribitchevitch cozily...
...Earl Brydges, musher from Cranberry Portage: the 200-mi. non-stop dogsled derby at The Pas, Manitoba, riding in his sled, too tired to mush, with three played-out dogs in the sled with him, and six pulling. Shorty Russic was second; Emil St. Goddard, the favorite, third...