Word: polar
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tropic day, a polar night...
...plodded along, fighting poverty and many drawbacks, until he is acknowledged, especially in out-door and college art, the leading photographer of the country. His brothers are associated with him, and they have permanent galleries in various localities. Mr. Bennett has engaged him for the photographing on the great Polar Sea Expedition, and the Messrs. Harper and Brothers accord him a similar rank to Thomas Nast in his department of art. When foreign celebrities are to be taken, Mr. Pach is usually called upon, even by other photographers, at least to secure the negatives, - an unmistakable compliment to his skill...
Prof. You have, perhaps, observed that when a severe rain-storm suddenly abates at night, the moon casts a greenish reflection and positions itself under the polar star...