Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floe for six months, were finally rescued by a Chilean trawler. In 1921, English bells were rung as Sir Ernest sailed away on another white voyage, his last. The following year on Jan. 5, he died of a, heart attack off South Georgia Island, 2,800 mi. northeast of Explorer Byrd's later Little America. When Lady Shackleton heard of his death, she insisted that his body be buried in the country he loved to explore...
...wants to do a service to science." Dr. Fisher explained, "he should first familiarize himself with the sickle in the constellation Leo. which is illustrated in most dictionaries. Choosing some quarter of the sky. (the northeast will probably be the most interesting), he should make observations for half-hour periods, nothing down all the meteors he sees, and distinguishing between the meteors in Leo and those in other parts of the quarter. Reports of such observations will be of real value...
...become New York under the English in 1664. An active politician, he was chosen Mayor of New York at the age of 34, later collected its taxes, dispensed justice from its supreme court. Outside of political office hours, he piled up a fortune as a merchant at the northeast corner of Pearl & Broad Streets, served as senior warden of Trinity Church, bought land in what is now Westchester County. When he had accumulated an estate of 83,000 acres extending ten miles along the Hudson River north from the Croton River and "a day's journey" [20 mi.] eastward...
...tall at the shoulder, has a broad heavy head, large curved horns, can live on Arctic vegetation which would starve a reindeer. Because of their hardy qualities, attempts were made two years ago to domesticate them for use as Arctic cows. Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, leader of the Northeast Greenland Expedition, has two tame musk ox mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches well, is as soft...
While a Norwegian sealer was visiting White Island off Spitzbergen last month and discovering the 33-year-lost remains of Explorer Salomon August Andrée & comrades (TIME, Sept. 1), an airplane full of Canadians flew northeast from Copper Mine in the Northwest Territories to King William Island on an expedition to chart arctic coastlines for the Canadian Government. At King William Island, Major L. T. Burwash, leader of the party, set out on foot with his two companions. They had not walked far when they stumbled upon something which looked like a graveyard. Digging away the snow...