Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston newspaper reporters made a call on the Winthrop House Polar Bares yesterday to interview the 300 cans of beer stored up for a celebration after divisional examinations. Much to the disgust of the College authorities, they sent back for the camera man to take photographs of the cans, piled up on a mantel-piece in B-entry...
Three hundred cans for four guys; that's a lot. When you put 300 cans on the mantelpiece that's even worse, but the Winthrop House Polar Bares look upon this achievement with pride as the culminating point in a worthy college career. They argue that it isn't everyone who can drink 300 cans of beer and pile them all on the mantelpiece. The reason they give for collecting such a magnificent stack of tin cans is that when divisionals are over they will be able to celebrate by rolling one down the entry stairs every ten seconds...
...Everest. Permission being refused by the British, we went to the jungles of Borneo to do anthropological work on the so-called wild man of Borneo. During these eight months, we were together practically every minute of the time-night and day. Our principal topic of conversation was the Polar Controversy. I spent considerable time with him in the oil fields of Wyoming and Texas, and when he is in Chicago I see him every day. Surely this intimate relationship could not have endured unless the Doctor was right. F. P. THOMPSON, M. D. Chicago...
...should like to correct your assumption that I am generally considered an impostor [TIME, March 16]. My polar attainment was recognized by such leading explorers and scientists as Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, Otto Sverdrup, Director Lecointe of the Brussels Observatory, Captain Bernier of the Northwest Mounted Police, and Anthony Fiala. . . . The Danes have never withdrawn the medal and degree they conferred upon me for their belief in the fidelity of my work. Stielers Atlas, a work of such authority that it is found on the tables of all important mapmakers, recognizes my success. Recent writers...
...Danish Geographical Society. British Journalist Philip Gibbs at once doubted Cook's story. On Sept. 6, Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, who had raced Dr. Cook to the Pole, said of his competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which can be regarded as proof." The commission's chairman declared that Dr. Cook's claim was "shameless...