Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Polar Pilgrim Nobile planted the flag of Italy upon the North Pole, dropped upon its icy wastes the cross given into his hands by Pope Pius, conducted the first religious ceremony ever held on top of the world and, warmed by the glow of an object accomplished, headed back through icy winds toward Kings Bay. It had taken him 19 hours to reach the Pole. The first 17 hours of the return trip brought many messages to the base ship Citta di Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile...
Father Gianfranchesci, chaplain of the expedition, telling his beads in Kings Bay, pinched himself to make sure he was alive. Chosen to drop the cross upon the Pole, he had his mystic misgivings. So when Signora Nobile wired her Polar Pilgrim to drop the cross with his own hands for luck, the good Father gladly remained behind...
Leaving Kings Bay the Italia sailed over a freely moving sea, unhampered by ice; headed north over the Franz Josef Archipelago for Tepliz Bay. Here the Sella Polare, the Duke of Abruzzi's ship, once wintered, here Francesco Querini heroically lost his life in the Cegni polar expedition of 1909, here in loyal commemoration Nobile dropped a symbol of St. Mark upon the ice. Low over the ice flew the Italia, through a dense fog, into a head wind, its speed cut to 40 miles, ice forming on its sides. Gradually the air cleared, visibility improved. Lenin Land, discovered...
...Fridtjof Nansen, famed Norwegian polar explorer, winner of the Nobel Peace Award in 1922, and repeatedly Norwegian Delegate to the League of Nations, landed from the Aquitania last week, to lecture before the National Geographical Society and then return within a fortnight to Norway. Growled he: "The most valuable vehicle for scientific polar exploration is still the dog sled. Airplanes and dirigibles fly too swiftly...
...Another important consideration is the greater carrying capacity of planes in the Arctic," continued Stefansson. "The cold air is heavy, in addition to being variably clear. 'Air pockets are also unknown in the polar regions...