Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polar dawn comes in March, sunset in September, noon in June. Last week it was mid-afternoon in the Arctic as all over the world meteorologists, astronomers and geophysicists traveled to work for the Second International Polar Year. Their most exciting assignment was to watch for the effects of the Sun's eclipse on Aug. 31. Then will follow a dull, methodical twelve months of measurements, computations and recordings...
...laid north of Point Barrow, Alaska. Chee-Ak comes courting Kyatuk as winter seems to break. The sanguine tribesmen have a food orgy. They are stupefied with blubber when winter suddenly closes in again. As the polar storm screams monotonously Chee-Ak suggests that they starve afoot. According to tribal routine they seal the aged into their igloos to die. Kyatuk's father is so left but Kyatuk protests. Chee-Ak backs her up. The tribe's offended gods dog the march with bad luck, nearly crushing them all in the polar icepack, until Kyatuk's father...
Despite occasional dramatic refinements that tend to discredit the entire picture, Igloo is well done. Good shots: the company of walruses inching off the ice floe; Eskimos kicking a snowball back & forth with their insteps; a whale whamming its tail out of water; a polar bear shuffling over...
...lost them?Pan American did not equip its expeditions with aircraft. For a year they will study weather, hunt for landing fields. Watkins' party will maintain two bases about 70 mi. apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...
...longer a member or a visitor to the Explorers Club is Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, from whose Arctic Club the Explorers Club evolved.* A venerable member is Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, 88, whose expedition to set up a U. S. meteorological base for the first (1881) Polar Year was lost and, save for seven men, destroyed by the Arctic...