Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blessed by the Pope, bidden adieu by Premier Mussolini as she sailed majestically forth on her polar flight, with one (or more) strokes of his pen, your Editor converts her [the Norge] from a "good airship" into a "BLUNT SILVERY CIGAR." [TIME, Apr. 19, SCIENCE...
Last week, the history of earth's north polar cap approached the climax of its most stirring chapter, One great event, a sporting feat, came to pass-the first visit to the Pole by a man in an airplane. Other events impended hourly...
...world, judging by the past performance of their craft, though Byrd's Fokker Josephine Ford had flown with astonishing success where Amundsen's planes failed last year. There would be fame enough for one and all. Yet it was absurd to deny rivalry. Each party of polar pilgrims carried flags to plant, or drop, for the U. S. or Norway, upon whatever continent or islands have lain hidden to date in the polar fastnesses...
Events of the week among the polar pilgrims were as follows...
...romanticism, is not dead. Like Aristotle and those who hug the hems of his ethical garments it lingers on. And so an American, who might just as well have been a Norwegian or a Frenchman or a Jap, risks his life to cross the uncharted areas of the Polar seas, for no more potent reason than the desire to do the impossible...