Word: sledding
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...submarine is a utilitarian thing painted red and grey (for visibility against ice), 175 ft. long. Arched across its deck from stern to bow are two braced beams. They resemble sled runners. They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed...
...Earl Brydges, musher from Cranberry Portage: the 200-mi. non-stop dogsled derby at The Pas, Manitoba, riding in his sled, too tired to mush, with three played-out dogs in the sled with him, and six pulling. Shorty Russic was second; Emil St. Goddard, the favorite, third...
...light but bulky package arrived at the Vatican last week from Alaska, addressed to Pope Pius XI, a surprise gift from hundreds of Catholic Eskimo children. The contents: a large piece of birchbark. Painted on its inner surface was a dog sled carrying nuns and a missionary priest through the main street of Holy Cross Mission, Alaska, towards a primitive rendering of the dome of St. Peter's while a female figure, representing St. Therese, scattered celestial petals from the clouds...
...Mine, 100 miles out. St. Godard's huskies weakened on the home stretch. A dog which had been lurching in the traces for a mile fell over without stumbling, its legs suddenly helpless. After looking it over St. Godard took its strap off and put it on the sled. Through the gigantic white domes of snow, alive in the wind over the wilderness, a figure was catching St. Godard-parka suit, woolen socks and moccasins, a young, bronzed face-Earl Brydges. Brydges lives in Cranberry Portage, St. Godard in The Pas, 55 miles away, so they are neighbors...
March 4?Dog-sled derby (200 mi.); from Le Pas to Flin Flon, Canada...