Word: parka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under the low wing of one of the giant four-motored ANT6 monoplanes...
...less than 14 hours. Following his $100,000 high-speed Lockheed was an old tri-motor Ford from which he planned to refuel in midair, thus tripling his range and obviating many landings in Alaskan mud, on ice hummocks or through fog, all deadly Arctic dangers. For 17 days, parka clad and living on seal meat and 18-month old eggs, Jimmie Mattern scoured the seacoast, the area flanking the 48th meridian and Alaska's mountainous interior. Because his refueling plane crashed just before reaching its destination he had to make the hazardous take-offs and landings he dreaded...
...Most famed of Episcopal missionaries, he had journeyed down from Alaska where he has labored for 39 years, been put in books by Rex Beach and Jack London, and mushed, navigated and flown over 50,000 miles of Arctic wastes. Bishop Rowe is not yet ready to put his parka and fur boots in mothballs - unless his Church forces him to. Last week many a petition and resolution was given to committees of Bishops and Deputies to ponder and report out. Work done : ¶ The Bishops rejected (54-to-44) a proposal to permit "translation" of bishops from one diocese...
...season draws to a close with the arrival of Prima Donna Parka who takes a fancy to Mr. Massey, and since she must have scandal wherever she goes, kisses Mr. Bullfinch. The Masseys pay off their social debts with a lecture on the Ceramics, Basketwork and Tribal Life of the Ogilluwaya Indians. All in all, everybody has enjoyed the summer. Everybody has made so many humorous mistakes and mutual blunders that, like checks at the clearing house, they cancel each other...
...traces for a mile fell over without stumbling, its legs suddenly helpless. After looking it over St. Godard took its strap off and put it on the sled. Through the gigantic white domes of snow, alive in the wind over the wilderness, a figure was catching St. Godard-parka suit, woolen socks and moccasins, a young, bronzed face-Earl Brydges. Brydges lives in Cranberry Portage, St. Godard in The Pas, 55 miles away, so they are neighbors as neighborhood is measured by frontiersmen. Brydges drove into The Pas in a whirlwind finish, the winner. His time was 12½ minutes...