Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jasper, Alberta will be the starting point and the seven explorers will start from there on June 23 working their way up the Athabaska River to its head waters, which are on the northern slopes of the Columbia ice fields...
...Athabaska River the party will approach the region from the north; camp will be made and the peaks of Mount Columbia 12,295 feet high, and the North Twin 12,085 feet high, will be attempted. If the peaks are reached, it will represent the first ascents from the northern sides, which are rocky as compared to the snowy and ice covered southern slopes...
...Associated Press later reported: "Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, after an interview with Marshal Chang Tso-lin, the Northern Chinese leader, yesterday, was the guest of the Anglo-American Association at luncheon today. He made a speech recounting humorously his adventures as an explorer in Latin-American countries...
...hard to distinguish, have one rare thing in abundance. They have race. They react sharply and lastingly to experiences like Sara Spain's (the heroine's) rescue from the surf by Siercy Hodd, her sweetheart and lover in lazy, lovely Georgia. They abominate the starched prosiness of the northern Haskell clan into which Sara marries, but they are game. After screaming, "Hop-toads!" at elder Haskells, they apologize...
...important to her. The Boer, the Briton, the Jew, the Asiatic, the half-caste?with each she deals separately because each is in himself an entity. South Africa, she seems to say, is a melting pot that lacks a fire. Finally she considers the Kaffirs. These, a brown Northern people who conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy. At the heart of the mat- ter Author...