Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great value of the Arctic is in the field of science: in biology, zoology, geology, ichthyology, and anthropology. Work in this latter field has revealed the most northern people in the world to be living as men did at least 10,000 years ago. Although it is difficult to place a monetary price on the value of scientific discovery, the results of such expeditions of research will justify the expenditure of every cent invested in the northern country...
...prefer the Arctic to the Antarctic. My field of work has been in that country, and there is more romance connected with it. For 300 years mentried to reach the pole, and since we are a northern race, all of our early expeditions were directed in that direction...
Instead of returning to the U. S. by the northern route, as earlier expected, the Lindberghs headed for Lisbon, Portugal. Late last month, after brief jaunts about the British Isles, they made a secret flight through a night storm to Paris, where Colonel Lindbergh has not been since his 1927 flight. He showed Mrs. Lindbergh the tablet erected at Le Bourget on the spot where he landed, stunted at Villacoublay in an acrobatic plane, visited the Air Ministry's experimental laboratory. Premier Albert Sarraut, Atlantic Flyer Dieudonne Coste and Louis Bleriot entertained them at dinners. After brief trips...
...troops in Manchukuo to a "peace time basis." Instead, more troops will be sent, the excuse being that Soviet Russia continues to maintain the large forces she established behind her frontier when Japan occupied Manchukuo and seized most of the half-Soviet-owned Chinese Eastern Railway which serves the northern part of Manchukuo...
...bushmaster ranges from southern Costa Rica to northern Brazil. Studded like a pineapple, its waxy, glistening scales are pale reddish yellow crossed with diamond-shaped black patches on the back. It may be the progenitor of the whole pit viper family, of which it is the longest. The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance. On the end of the bushmaster's tail is a slender horn, possibly a vestigial set of rattles. Like the rest of the family, it has a deep pit on either side of its big, blunt snout. It is the only member which...