Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college library in the world, with 750,000 volumes. Rising Lowell-House-like above the "green", Baker Library houses a variety of treasured, including such outstanding author collections as those of Robert Burns, George Ticknor, Stephen crane, and Robert Frost and such regional libraries as the Stefannson Collection on polar areas. Since Dartmouth prides itself on a "teaching" faculty, most professors there do comparatively little research. Thus, the library is considered easily adequate for their needs as well as those of the undergraduates...
...Ordered the Navy icebreaker Atka to Antarctica on an expedition to collect scientific and geographic data. Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 65-year-old polar explorer, will serve as technical adviser, although it has not been decided whether he will accompany the expedition...
None of this means, Dr. Creer points out, that the earth's axis of revolution has changed its direction in space. More likely, it has stayed put while the thin crust of the earth has slipped around the core, carrying different parts of the surface to the cold polar regions. Dr. Creer is not sure that the crust as a whole has moved. The continents may have drifted independently. By measuring the magnetism of more ancient rocks, he hopes to answer this question...
...Woman in the Polar Night, by Christiane Ritter (Button; $3), is the story of another intrepid woman and her adventures in a colder climate than Arizona. Frau Ritter lived for a year on the north coast of Spitsbergen in a hut ten feet square, with her husband and a young Norwegian hunter, in temperatures that sank to 40° below zero. To the north lay Anxiety Bay, to the south Distress Hook, to the east Misery Bay and to the west the Bay of Grief. Not a tree or shrub rose from the sea of stones that covered the desolate...
...little too cold to make much love anyway, so Joan and Alan start chasing the villain (Stanley Baker) across the polar floes. As a sort of wrong-way Simon Legree who munches Saltines as malevolently as if they were human bones. Actor Baker is good for some laughs, but by the time he is stowed in the Deepfreeze, many moviegoers will sigh a heartfelt ditto to Ladd's last line: "Come on; it's over...