Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second encounter, after the Monitor had narrowly escaped being rammed, the crew in desperation used a full charge, which drove the projectile into the vitals of the Merrimac, and this ironclad never waited for another such broadside but turned and fled, leaving the little Monitor the master of the sea, and the savior of the Union...
Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...
...weeks for repairs and good weather on her way from Rome-to-Nome). Pausing only long-enough to refuel and bundle themselves more thickly in furs, Colonel Nobile and his mates cast off again and sailed all through another Arctic night, out over Barent's ice-strewn sea for Spitzbergen. The headwinds that had buffeted the Norge over Russia, causing her to wallow and pitch like a great grey air whale, changed to following winds that added speed and made life more endurable for the wakeful voyagers, forced to stand close-packed in their unheated gondola. Bear Island...
BLACK SUNLIGHT-Earl Rossman -Oxford University Press ($1.75). With so many bold men preparing these spring days to explore by air over the icy wastes of the Polar Sea, this journalistic account of life on the upper fringes of Alaska makes a well-timed appearance. As Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson agrees in the preface, it is a good kind of introduction to "the friendly Arctic" for folk who have never been there, since Author Rossman was a tenderfoot when he took his cinema cameras to the Eskimo village of Wainwright* and settled down for the hard winter...
...Tailless mice, upon which, as a race, there periodically comes an urge to descend to the sea and drown by the million...