Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following Interview with Sonja Henle was procured for the Crimson by E. T. Floathe '32. It is particularly interesting to note that a great deal of the conversation was carried on in Norwegian...
...hoped that he could fly from his base at Deception Island to visit Admiral Byrd at Little America. On the far side of the continent, Sir Douglas Mawson's men were able to make only a brief flight from their ship, the Discovery. In the same general neighborhood the Norwegian whale-spotters, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Lützow Holm, did not fly far from the Norvegia...
...asked the U. S. State Department to get the English and Norwegian whaling ships at the outside of the ice pack to help his ships break through. Britain and Norway urged the whaling companies to order their ships to the rescue, if rescue be needed.* Company officials said that they would wait a fortnight, in hopes that the pack would open. To send their vessels against the pack now would break the ships and not the ice. If all else failed, they would wait until they could bring the Byrd group afoot over...
...parties who have worked around the continent the past two winters: 1) Byrd Antarctic Expedition at the Ross Sea; 2) Wilkins-Hearst Expedition (Sir George Hubert Wilkins) at the Weddell Sea; 3) British- Australian-New Zealand and Antarctic Expedition (Sir Douglas Mawson's) at the Indian Ocean side; 4) Norwegian Whalers (Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen's and Lutzow Holm...
...pictures which hung last week on the walls of the Chambrun gallery, against the imagined landscape of all Perdriat's paintings there appeared the figures of languid, self-contained and luxurious girls. Most were portraits of Perdriat or her Norwegian friend; a few were groups; one was a scene from some placid and improbable bawdy house, in which five harlots were drinking and playing cards beneath a cloud of afternoon...