Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While learned British scientists expatiated at Southampton a new Ice Age that will drive civilization to the earth's poles for warmth, (see above), Commander Donald B. MacMillan and his aids steamed homeward along the shores of Greenland from their attempted exploration of the Polar Sea by air, (TIME, June 22 et sec.) Their work had been of a kind which, if the prophets are right, will be rated by future generations-if not with the exploits of Columbus and Magellan- certainly with those of Hinton (Atlantic-crossing aeronaut), Leigh, Wade and Nelson (globe-fliers) and Eckener (Atlantic crossing...
Through continuous winter nights, with the mercury often at 70° below Zero, Captain Oscar Wisting* and his men kept up their scientific journals (soundings, air currents), shot vagrant polar bears that came near and even aboard, published a newspaper, tuned their radio to far-off stations, resolutely fought off solitude...
...Accumulation of new technical data on Smith Sound, Ellesmere Island and Grinnell Land for subsequent attempts to explore the Polar...
MacMillan expressed his opinion, which echoed Explorer Amundsen's that the only practical vehicle for aerial polar exploration is the dirigible...
...October, Ellsworth will meet his chief at a U. S. dock, discuss a polar flight by small dirigible or super sea plane...