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Word: oiled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent banquet held in the Trophy Room of the Union, an oil portrait of Professor George Herbert Palmer '64 was presented to the University. Last June when Professor Palmer had been a teacher at Harvard for 40 years, a committee of 27 of his former pupils of which Professor C. M. Backewell, of Yale, was chairman, decided to have the portrait painted as a tribute to him and a token of their deep appreciation of his work. The portrait, which was painted by Mr. Charles Hopkinson '91, is now in the Trophy Room. It will be put on exhibition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR PALMER HONORED | 3/2/1911 | See Source »

...they cached most of their goods and proceeded along the edge of the ice to their hut, where they found a note, saying where the "Nimrod" would shelter, and that it would leave on February 26. That night they spent in torment. There was very little food, and no oil to burn; they had left their blankets on the ice and it was too cold to sleep; and they believed that the ship had moved her position or possibly had gone north and left them. But the next morning they sighted her, and by 11 o'clock were on board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARDSHIPS OF POLAR WORK | 4/1/1910 | See Source »

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