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Roald Amundsen and five companions in two flying boats taxied along the water and rose in the air. Spitzbergen dwindled behind them, as their heavily-laden craft, fueled for a 1,600-mile trip, with provisions for six weeks, turned northward on a 700-mile trip to the North Pole. They should have wade it in eight or nine hours, they might have returned in as many hours more. But they did not. They kept the world waiting. They might have suffered mishap and be trekking back. They might have descended at the Pole, as they hoped...
Following the moonlit battle, the combined fleets- the U. S. Fleet- steamed northward from Magdelena Bay and came to anchor at San Diego and Coronado Roads- 114 craft, including the airplane carrier Langley and the supply ships. Fourteen gorgeous admirals took part in the quarterdeck receptions...
...moth-eaten natural history book, lately discovered in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library describes the tiger as "a large feline of the zebra complexion which inhabits the swamps of New Jersey. For a short period every we years it migrates northward in great numbers to the flats at Cambridge, Massachusetts, to 'pawn'. After his operation the animal returns to is habitat, greatly reduced, and in a condition relatively "ractable...
Suddenly he saw, close to Governor's Island, a tapering cloud coming down to a point within some 700 ft. of the water. Up from the water rose a column of spray. It was perhaps 100 ft. in diameter and SO ft. high. The spout travelled rapidly northward for about a mile in the course of five minutes and then disappeared. Fortunately, no incoming liners or plying ferry boats were in its path. It whisked a few pieces of lumber from a passing barge but otherwise no damage was done. It was the first waterspout ever observed in New York...
...then, free player-piano and player-organ concerts were given of a forenoon when no orchestra was rehearsing, but these, being free, were not too well attended. The sale of the Hall, at a figure estimated at around $6,000,000, is seen as a harbinger of another northward...