Word: nome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found at the Pole, he will establish a gasoline and supply base, hop back to the ship at Spitzbergen, and start out again with more supplies for the long flight to Alaska, picking up the others on the way. The Shenandoah plan is to fly by easy stages to Nome, where the Ramapo, a vessel with a mooring mast, will be stationed...
Harold Noice, a Canadian, left Nome on Aug. 3 on the schooner Donaldson, to relieve Crawford and place another man on the island. The Soviet authorities of Siberia plan to capture the relief party and the Crawford " settlement...
...first scene everything went well. The soprano does not appear in that scene. Walska appeared, radiantly beautiful, in the second scene. Her voice was thin and nervous. The great aria, caro nome, came, prodigious in its demands upon the strength, purity and agility of the upper soprano voice. Walska's voice faltered badly. At the final top note she emitted a series of faint squeaks and there was silence-no tone came. The audience began to laugh. The fiasco was ghastly. Then, as throughout the rest of the opera, it was evident that Walska's top tones were...
...Pittman (Democrat) are the men. Both have been engaged in the mining business at one time or another. At the age of 25 Key Pittman joined the gold rush to Alaska and worked for two years as a common miner. Later he became the first district attorney of Nome. He returned to the United States proper, and settled in Tonopah, Nev., one of the Nevada silver and gold mining cities. In 1912 he was elected to the Senate. There, naturally a champion of the mining industry, he became sponsor for the Pittman Act of 1918 for breaking up silver dollars...
Amundsen's pilot, Lieut. Oskar Omdahl, has been reported dead from Nome, but a mail carrier who left Wainwright, April 28, where Omdahl, spent the winter, said all there were well. Amundsen is taking with him moving picture apparatus for filming the polar region...