Word: rasmus
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...Wisconsin student who walks up a certain street in Madison in summer and early fall, the figure of Dr. Rasmus B. Arderson, age 90, is a family one. He sits in placid silence on the porch of his home and watches with keen eyes the passing parade. There are many who would like to know his thoughts as the daily setting sun throws his rocking chair into shadows. When the Civil War came to an end, he was taking a degree at Luther College in Iowa. In 1866 he embarked on a teaching career as professor of Greek and modern...
Died. Karl Dane (Rasmus Karl Thekelsen Gottlieb), 47, cinemactor who achieved fame as "Slim" in The Big Parade; by his own hand (revolver); in Hollywood. Reason: in the talkies he could find...
...west coast of Greenland, at Kamarujuk. A central station he set up 250 mi. inland, on the Greenland icecap, slowly gestating mother of icebergs. Last September two men were at the central station. They expected to remain alone all winter. Professor Wegener, Dr. Fritz Loewe and an Eskimo named Rasmus left the west camp with supplies...
...feet were frozen. All his toes had to be cut off. Weather was so terrible that it was unwise for anyone to risk return to the coast. But only enough food remained to support three men until the end of May. Professor Wegener insisted that he and Rasmus leave. They rested a day and a half, then started back to the coast. But before they started they joined in a little merrymaking. The day was Nov. 1 and Professor Wegener's 50th birthday. A few gentle cheers of Hoch and Gesundheit were swallowed by the Greenland silence; then...
...cause most of Europe's and North America's "weather," was roaring. The German and the Eskimo leaned into the wind. The dogs kept their ears back and their bellies close to the ice. They got 40 mi. from the central station. Then Professor Wegener died. Rasmus carefully buried him and marked the grave with the upright skis. The finders of the body last week placed it on a sledge. Around and over the sledge they built a mausoleum of ice blocks. Then they went hunting for Rasmus. For a space his spoor was plain. From the grave...