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...Byrd Antarctic Expedition I, including information on the air currents, meteorology, animal life, geology and general physical characteristics of Marie (his wife) Byrd Land, a hitherto unknown territory of 250,000 sq. mi. which he discovered and claimed for the U. S.; a mass of data on cosmic rays, Polar meteorology, astronomy, geology, hydrography, oceanography, terrestrial magnetism, glaciology, botany, bacteriology, biology...
...Next day Lincoln Ellsworth, No. 1 Byrd rival in South Polar exploration, sailed for Europe on his third transantarctic expedition, to determine "once and for all" if the so-called South Polar continent is really a single body of land or two or more gigantic islands. Said rich Explorer Ellsworth when asked about his financial backing: "I am an idealist-I don't care where the money comes from...
...form a plausible idea of how Earth looks from other planets. Last week Director Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) told how Earth must look to Mars. The Martian astronomer sees a planet bluer than Venus and bigger. If he looks sharp he can see the polar caps shrinking and spreading with the change of seasons. Through rifts in the cloud veil, he discerns great blue-black patches which by spectroscopic analysis he finds, with croaks of envy, to be oceans of water. Heavily wooded areas look dark to him and he has difficulty distinguishing them from...
Then, after arranging his pocket 'kerchief, he strode boldly forward, progressing a few yards before the ice gave way. With the nonchalance of a cigarette model, the hero rolled out upon the thin ice and dragged himself to safety, effecting a rather neat self-rescue. On emerging from his polar bath, he remained ashore just long enough to tell the crowd which had gathered that he was a member of the Boston Brownies, the Bay State division of the cult of polar bathers...
...sake, take care of our people." The Lord Mayor of London started a fund for the dead men's' families. Before long ?90,000 had poured in. It was decided that the surplus should be used not only for a Scott monument but for the advancement of polar research. Professor Frank Debenham, Cambridge University geographer who had traveled with Scott, had an idea that became a vision...