Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oftedal of Milwaukee be assured that rescued jackass Nobile means no gain to the world, but men of the north will forever honor Roald Amundsen, son of the vikings, who died as he lived-a hero...
July 11: Soviet Pilot Chukhnovsky with crew of four, takes off from Krassin, sights Capts. Mariano & Zappi and the body of Malmgren. He is forced down on North East Land. Marooned, Pilot Chukhnovsky directs rescue of Malmgren party by radio...
...Italia crashes on ice north of Spitsbergen, killing Motorist Vincenzo Pommella, separating Polar Pilgrims into two groups. Eight, led by Gen. Nobile, are left stranded with the wreckage of the cabin. Seven are blown away with the dirigible...
Buddha, the most placid of the prophets, would himself have been perturbed by a letter which was received last week at the Buddhist Center, of Manhattan. The letter was signed by Professor Nicholas Roerich; it had been despatched from the terrain that lies north of the Himalayas, where the Roerich American Expedition (TIME, June 4) is now located. It detailed, in approximately 5,000 words, the degradation which Nicholas Roerich had discovered in Tibet during his four-year sojourn thereabouts. In condensed form, the letter said: Buddhism in Tibet, its ancient stronghold, has become a depraved Shamanistic religion. The celebrated...
...Herr Doktor Siegfried Schiff, 66, a Berlin physician, said sternly to reporters on the North Sea Isle of Heligoland, last week, that he was about to take a swim "solely for exercise." Plunging in Herr Doktor Schiff swam completely around Heligoland, about three miles, in 4 hours and 35 minutes...