Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returned. For "excellent behavior" displayed in fishing his two companions, Lieutenant Dietrichsen and Mechanic Omdahl, out of polar pools into which they slipped while walking over floes from their crippled seaplane to rejoin Explorer Amundsen, the Cabinet Council of Norway last week conferred a gold medal on Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth, only U.S. member of the Amundsen polar flight which returned in safety a fortnight ago to Oslo (TIME, July...
...September, Explorer Amundsen will lecture formally in Oslo, then come to the U. S. to reap the bumper lecture-crop he needs to go on another Polar pilgrimage for Science...
Going. In Battle Harbor, Labrador, a place of gray rock domes, fretted shoreline, low islands: and a horizon studded with icebergs, the Bowdoin, flagship of Explorer Donald B. MacMillan's Polar expedition, lay at anchor waiting for her consort, the Peary. When the latter turned up, she explained that a fierce storm near the Strait of Belle Isle had forced her to heave to for fear of damage to the expedition's three Navy planes which she carried lashed to her decks. Board screens had been erected against the hammering seas and no damage was done...
Knowing well that his time would be much occupied when he reached home, Mr. Amundsen soon went below to continue answering a multitude of messages congratulating him upon his safe return from the grip of the north polar ice cap (TIME, June 29). Also he slogged at a book describing his experiences...
Donald B. MacMillan, before sailing from Wiscasset, Me., a fortnight ago on his expedition to scout the polar cap with planes, had said that the very first thing he would do upon reaching his base at Etah, Greenland, would be to look for Amundsen. Arriving at Sydney, N. S., Mr. MacMillan heard from Amundsen via U. S. friends of the latter. "PLEASE CONVEY TO COMMANDER MACMILLAN OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION. WISHING HIM A GLORIOUS JOURNEY...