Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wood now very rare, but known for its ability to resist the tearing grind of the ice. On one of her first voyages north with the sealers, she carried as a member of her crew a youth named Ronald Amundsen, whose achievements later became famous in the annals of polar exploration. It was Captain Amundsen who, in 1926, recommended the staunch old ship to Admiral Byrd for the long voyage southward to the Rose. Barrior, where Little America, the base camp of the Antarctic Expedition, was later to be located...
After battling terrific odds in her voyages to little America, her ice-scarred bow and hull give ample evidence of the clutching, ripping fingers of the polar giants that tried to hold the ship back; but there is no visible proof today of the gales she outrode or the times she struggled under tons of sleet and frozen spray that weighted her rail to the water's edge and nearly sank her. So the visitor who views the "City of New York" today sees only a proud, old, ship, a member of a fast-vanishing generation of square-riggers that...
...model faithful in every detail. There are in miniature the wireless towers, the huts, and the paths across the ice over which the loads of supplies and equipment were carried. The lighting within the glass case is so controlled as to produce an exact representation of the polar day, growing gradually in brilliance, then fading away into Antarctic night, when the beacon-lights atop the wireless towers shine out across the frigid wastes...
Norwegians recalled planes and ships en route for Nautilus rescue, and voiced their vexation at the expense which troubled explorers cause other people. It was suggested that henceforth all Polar expeditions be required to post enough money to pay for rescue expeditions...
...British and the Germans have had parties on the Greenland ice cap all winter. The German leader. Professor Alfred Wegener, is now considered dead (TIME, May 18). The isolated British watcher, Augustine Courtauld, feared dead, was reported safe last fortnight. Packing up in Manhattan is the Williams American Polar Expedition, under Flavel Manley Williams, retired Navy officer. The Williams party will go to northern Greenland where they will set up a strong radio station. The station will collect and relay weather reports of the 1932-33 Polar Year, observations to which official expeditions from all the northern nations will contribute...