Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Located near the South Pole of the sky, the "cloud" is estimated to be more than a hundred million light years distant from earth. It is in the shape of a narrow stream, probably fifty million light years long by twenty million light years across. Its members are visible only through very powerful telescopes...
...Rudolf Island meanwhile waited 37 men, including four scientists, who will live at the Pole for the coming year. This week the three other planes are scheduled to take the four scientists and a load of supplies to the base, bring Dr. Schmidt and his companions back. The four who will remain are Ivan Papanin, the leader, a former military commissar and leader of the fleet mutiny at Leningrad during the War, lately manager of the polar station at Franz Josef Land; Ernest Krenkel, who was radio officer with the Byrd Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930; Pyotor Shirshoff, hydro...
...skill and success with which the ticklish job was launched lent a blush of color to the proposed Moscow-San Francisco airline. The route is by far the most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...
Said Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, who flew over the Pole in 1926: "This is a superb undertaking. ... It is my guess that the group . . . will drift over toward Spitzbergen or Greenland and in order to stay at the Pole they will have to move their base periodically in the direction of Alaska...
Said Matt Henson, 72-year-old Negro who is the sole surviving member of Admiral Robert Edwin Peary's party that trekked to the Pole in 1909: "It was a sight harder...