Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State of North Carolina...
...Newfoundland the Gulf Stream meets the Labrador Stream coming down from the north. Their meeting causes the fogs over the Grand Banks...
...Gulf Stream, swiftest moving and best studied of ocean currents, however, loses comparatively little of its heat at Newfoundland. It drifts eastward to help warm all of Europe, including of course England.* Europe is warmer than North America. Off Europe the Gulf Stream Drift splits into three streams. One goes between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands north of Scotland, another along west Iceland, the third along the western side of Greenland...
Protestants might scoff, or heretics sneer. The slant eyelids of infidels might even lower in sedate winks. But General Umberto Nobile clung to the medal as tangible proof that his pious deed of dropping a large Papal cross on the North Pole (TIME, June 4) has found highest favor in the eyes of the Most Blessed Father and Supreme Pontiff, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI. Enthusiastic, His Holiness sent along with the medal his "warmest congratulations," and finally imparted a solemn Papal blessing...
Said the grateful and pious Nobile: "Part of our motion picture film was lost. We had to burn it in an effort to keep warm. But we spared the footage showing me in the act of dropping emblems* upon the North Pole...