Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost all the "new" acts are shoddy reach-me-downs from former successes. They are not clipped short before they begin to pall. The music is a damp package of the old fireworks. Several of the set tings, notably "The Celebrated Popoff's Porcelains," are direct steals from such past Bat Theatre triumphs as the "Dutch Platter Porcelains...
...Siberia. Almost half his party died on Wrangel Island. In 1921, four men and Ada Blackjack, Eskimo sempstress, tried to live on the island. All but Miss Blackjack died. And dead, probably, are the Russian colonists sent there two years ago. A Russian relief ship, the Stavropol, tried to reach them this winter. Last week the Stavropol's captain, back at his Siberian base, reported that he had not been able to break through the Arctic...
...last week to raise $500,000 for a flight to the North Pole in the Graf Zeppelin with Dr. Hugo von Eckener, in 1930. "Arctic research will be the prime consideration," said Dr. Nansen. When only 26, he achieved the first crossing of Greenland. In 1892, he tried to reach the North Pole in a peculiar, round-shaped boat named Fram; three years later he was crossing the ice on foot to the highest latitude then attained; a year later he was picked up by the Jackson- Harmsworth expedition. Recently, he has been more famed as a diplomat and relief...
...there slipped into her hand from one envelope a pamphlet which bore on its face the horrendous word cancer. "What Every Woman Should Do About Cancer" was the pamphlet's title. It was part of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's latest effort to reach 8,000,000 U. S. women...
...Massachusetts tournament, J. L. Pool '28, captain of last year's University squash team, and H. N. Rawl- ins '27, present national champion. O. E. Debevoise '26 is also a difficult opponent. The University team won the National Championship in 1925, 1926 and 1927 but failed to reach the semifinals last year...