Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Igloo, 6, fox terrier, pet and mascot of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on polar expeditions; of indigestion; in Boston, Mass., after three veterinaries had sought to save his life. Admiral Byrd, lecturing in Springfield, Ill., canceled an engagement, rushed to Chicago to charter an airplane. But Death had come to Igloo. In Memphis, Tenn., continuing his tour, Admiral Byrd declined the offer of another dog. Said he: "Igloo cannot be replaced...
...rehearsed, the radio play presented, among other scenes, one in which Soviet officials debated whether they would be justified in sending the Red icebreaker Krassin at great expense to rescue General Umberto Nobile and other survivors of the Italian polar dirigible flight...
...Berry is as vast and impressive as a Wagnerian tenor, especially when, of a winter day, he puts on his dirty-whitish, reputedly polar-bear coat. Floppy, capacious tweed knickerbockers are his usual gear and sometimes (in his official capacity at a track meet) he achieves a novel effect by adding to the ensemble a tailcoat & white tie, twirling in his hand a big gold-knobbed baton. Appearances of this sort, however (say Cornellians) reveal only one-third of his personality. In his office he is irascible, sometimes making helpless undergraduates wonder why they have put up with...
Died. Willard I. Grimmer, 27, quartermaster of the submarine Nautilus in which Sir Hubert Wilkins plans to cruise under the ice across Earth's north polar cap this summer (TIME, March 23); after falling overboard as the Nautilus was entering New York harbor. W7hen Quartermaster Grimmer married one Mary Fountain three weeks ago in Philadelphia, he said: "The Nautilus has brought me luck in the last month; a chance to meet my wife and a chance to take one of the greatest trips ever planned...
...Presented last week by the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. So numerous are his medals that he lumps them thus: Patron's Medal, 1928, by Royal Geographical Society, for work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen; awarded gold medals by American, Belgian, Danish, Cuban Geographical Societies (the Cuban society last week gave a medal to Georges Claude, French scientist who experimentally generates electricity from the heat differences between the surface and bottom waters of Matanzas Bay); silver medals by German Geographical Society and City of Berlin; gold medal by Norwegian and French Aeronautical Societies...