Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beard, dark brown, soft and short, was originally a protection against Polar cold in the Arctic and Antarctic. Now the beard is an insignium of popular science. As a correspondent-explorer for William Randolph Hearst, Sir Hubert is distinguished in appearance as well as achievements...
...submarine is a utilitarian thing painted red and grey (for visibility against ice), 175 ft. long. Arched across its deck from stern to bow are two braced beams. They resemble sled runners. They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed...
...success makes the world smaller for explorers. Only the airless peaks of the Himalayas, the cold hearts of the polar ice-packs and a few large jungle-guarded areas of the Amazon basin have escaped the eye and tread of civilized man. Only a few other regions have escaped man's mapping and surveying instruments: the vast forests and swamps of northeastern Siberia, the fastnesses of northeastern Tibet, the bandit-infested northern reaches of the Gobi Desert, the sandy centre of Australia, the eastern slopes of the unmapped Andes, the vast Patagonian icecap stretching over South America...
...President asked Congress to appropriate $30,000 for U. S. participation in a second Polar year in 1932. During a Polar year meteorologists of many countries are sent into the Arctic to gather and compare atmospheric data, draw new conclusions about the weather. The last was held...
...part from the Pet Department of the "New Yorker." It deals chiefly with the more subtle sides of animal life, but for all of that quite instructive and thoroughly amusing. He solves such problems as horses with tendencies to take up their residence in the drawing room and adolescent polar bears...