Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seppalla, resting one knee on his sled and using his right leg to push with, drove his team along the white miles. His little Siberian dogs plunged hopelessly in their harness, jerking against leather, grooving the deep drifts with their bellies. Remembering again the drifting ice across Norton Bay, Leonard Seppalla cracked his whip and called the curious signal to go ahead which made his leader duck and scuttle, guessing the trail with his feet...
Stoll-MacCracken Siberian-Arctic Expedition, supported by Charles H. Stoll, Manhattan lawyer, collected some fine specimens of brown bear and the material for the Pacific Walrus Group to be placed in the Hall of Ocean Life...
Baroness Buxhoeveden was one of the few faithfuls who followed the royal family into their dreary Siberian exile, herself narrowly escaping their gruesome fate. She was constant companion to the grand duchess, but has not recognized the authenticity of the young woman who last year claimed to be Anastasia, escaped...
...aspect of a religious teacher, not a theologian not a didacticism, but one who used as his text the Gospel story of the raising of Lazarus. He becomes rather the man who, having passed through a life of suffering and deprivation and a decade of hell in the Siberian katorga, returned without losing faith in humanity and with boundless pity for the insulted and injured. A man like that must look at life from more angles than one, and it is primarily the task of calling forth Dostoevsky's human philosophy that Mr. Meler-Graefe has set himself, a task...
Fish. A new method has been developed whereby Norwegian herrings, Siberian sturgeon, faraway fish of every kind may be served in inland U. S. cities in the same luscious, savory, juicy state that they enjoyed when caught. The method consists of freezing so quickly and at so low a temperature that the flesh cells are not injured by ice crystals. The chemical composition remains the same; there is no opportunity for bacterial development or decomposition...