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Word: novaya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only Fit for a Saga. Like Pytheas, the Vikings, who roamed from Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen to Greenland and Newfoundland, were too far ahead of their time. By the15th Century, when their own exploratory impetus was spent, their Arctic trade-routes and their flourishing Greenland colonies had become mere fantastic stuff for sagas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out in the Cold | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Every day thousands of parcels addressed "For the guerrillas" arrive in Moscow. Collective farmers of Siberia recently sent 4,000 packages. Each contained kitbag, leather boots, raincoat, tobacco, knives, compass. From the remote Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya came parcels of furs and dried fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Fenimore Cooper Stories. | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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