Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They read that Eskimo Kudlooktoo and his friend Eskimo Inukitsoq (nicknamed "Harrigan") were returning on April 10, 1909 with Professor Marvin from an expedition supporting Peary's dash for the Pole. According to Kudlooktoo, Marvin suddenly "sordlo ilisimajungnaersimasok" ["was like a sane man who for the moment was without the use of his faculties"]. Marvin, Kudlooktoo alleges, ordered Inukitsoq to get off the dog sledge, and proposed to leave him on the ice to die without food-all for no apparent reason. Kudlooktoo thereupon shot Marvin with a rifle, to save Inukitsoq, and the two Eskimos returned to Peary...
...Angeles. Since she nosed out of Friedrichshafen* to fly the Atlantic, pickings have been lean for zeppelin workers on Lake Constance. Last winter Dr. Hugo Eckener, president of the Zeppelin plant, toured Germany in an effort to raise funds to build a zeppelin that should fly across the Pole-failed. What to do? Must the great zeppelin plant break up after holding together heroically during the eight years since...
Polar Flyer Richard Evelyn Byrd: "A letter which has followed me over the U. S. since May 15 has reached me. It contained an odd request from one E. R. Davis, advertising man of Tacoma, Wash., for an exclusive contract to erect signs at the North Pole. He offered to pay for this right $1,000 per annum, from the date he constructed his first sign there. I signed the contract instantly, and returned it to Mr. Davis. What manner of signs he may erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs...
...Scotland, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, famed Norwegian explorer of North Pole regions, onetime (1906-08) Norwegian Minister to the Court of St. James's, donned ermine and was ensconced as rector, for one year, of ancient St. Andrews University...
Warsaw editors, resourceful, instantly covered their booming blunder. It was not the daughter of Henry Ford, they said, but his granddaughter, Josephine, who was engaged to marry Count Skrzynski. Warsavians, remembering the flight of the Josephine Ford over the Pole (TIME, May 17), accepted this new rumor, beamed anew...