Word: reindeers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...warm in summer, rarely gets below freezing even in midwinter, when there is no sun for nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape, 75 miles farther on, drops anchor to give its passengers a chance to swim in the warm water, pick flowers, stare at the flat-faced Lapps. The town is not much to see, standing...
...make him go 500 miles the next time to trade with someone else. No cash register affair, honesty in the Magids chain is a complicated matter involving as much as 15 years of credit. The Eskimos and, in Candle, the white residents bring in furs, gold, seal oil and reindeer meat to trade for canned food, clothes, hardware, needles, anchors, liquor. As near as he can figure, Trader Magids last year did $90,000 worth of business. Another $15,000 was taken in by Kotzebue Sound Lighterage Co., which he also owns...
...Other Negro fraternal orders include: Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia; Knights of Pythias (Eastern and Western Hemisphere); Grand United Order of Fishermen of Galilee; Grand United Order of Galilean Fishermen; Improved Benevolent Order of Reindeer; Benevolent Protective Herd of Buffaloes of the World; Improved Benevolent Protective Order of the Moose of the World; Grand United Order of Brothers and Sisters, Sons and Daughters o Moses-Grand United Order of Tents of J. B Giddings and Jollifee Union; Royal Circle of Friends of the World; Supreme Circle of Benevo-lence...
...Mars and Jupiter and of which the largest is Ceres (diameter 480 mi.). ¶Heard the Commission on Meteorites strongly urge the Soviet Government to make further study of the Siberian fall of 1908, heaviest fall of meteorites in history, which scorched trees for miles around, annihilated 1,500 reindeer, dammed the Ognia River. The French Government was also urged to push thorough examination of the Chinguetti, an iron meteorite 325 ft. long and weighing possibly a million tons, which a French expedition stumbled on in 1921 in the wilds of Western Africa...
...Three months ago Herdsman Bahr delivered the reindeer, reduced to 2,300 head, to the government station on the Kittigazuit Peninsula...