Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago some U.S. strategic thinkers were talking about a World War III fought across the polar icecap. Their idea was probably premature. A transpolar war in the next decade is unlikely for two reasons: 1) equipment for it is not being developed fast enough; 2) some...
...Frederick A. Cook, who claimed to be the first man to have reached the North Pole, threatened to bring a libel action (Author Mirsky had glacially described his account of his polar trip as "exciting and well-written, but . . . mainly fiction")*.-Now-revised, mapped, brought up to date-this magnificent history is again available to the public...
Norway's Nansen let his famed Fram "drift" (in winter it was locked in the ice) for three icy years, to test the vagaries of polar currents, emerged from the ordeal with two strong conclusions: "I have never before understood what a magnificent invention soap really is"; "Oh, how tired I am! ... Why should we always make so much of truth? Life is more than cold truth, and we live but once...
...González Videla intended to handle things in his own direct-action way . for the time being. With Bogotá-bound Pascual la Rosa, Argentine Foreign Office big shot, he signed an accord for a common front against Britain and negotiation of disputed Argentine-Chilean claims in the polar regions...
...mile trip back from Greenwich Island and Graham Land was; rough and uncomfortable. Polar gales churned the iceberg-haunted seas until the transport Presidente Pinto ran for shelter among the rainswept islands north of Cape Horn. But Chile's far-faring President Gabriel González Videla was in high spirits. His voyage to nail down Chilean Claims to Antarctic territories also claimed by the British had made him the most popular man in his country...