Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain MacMillan early in the spring of 1924 made a long trip over the snow and icefields southward from the spot where his ship was frozen in, to the first Esquimaux village, the settlement of humans which is the nearest in the world to the North Pole. There he found the children coasting down the hills, exactly, he said, like children elsewhere. The Esquimaux were very clever with their hands, and also with their feet. In illustration of this fact the speaker showed pictures of Esquimaux ladies holding their sewing in their toes. These Polar inhabitants had last been visited...
Neither was he alarmed when, early one morning, a "Black" scout plane reported six destroyers, one battleship, four cruisers, anchored off Molokai, the island nearest to Oahu. That was merely the advance contingent of the attacking U. S. Armada, coming to rescue Pearl Harbor from "The Enemy...
First thought was to declare a half-holiday and put the brooms away. Then some more brilliant upholder of the Commonwealth bethought him of the simple trundlers garage men use to shift cars around with. With whoops of glee the entire force raided the nearest garage and brought back a trundler each five...
...morning playing horsey and freight train up and down Mt. Auburn Street and making teams of cars for each other's amusement. But finally, about twelve o'clock, the chief came down to open up the station and ordered them to put their playthings away in the nearest garage...
...into a true university, the question of a site for the new school became a burning question. To the eagle eye on Dr. John Warren of the class of 1771 through whose unwearied efforts the school had become possible the risen tiers of seats in Holden Chapel offered the nearest approach to an operating amphitheater obtainable in those lays. Thus after having served the purposes of church state, and army, Madame Holden's gift came next into the service of medicine...