Word: sleds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First dog in the Whitney Collection was 0. B. Oilman's Idahurst Lofty, considered the best cocker spaniel in America. Nearby stands Bernice of White Isle, a near perfect bloodhound and Togo, Alas kan sled dog. Togo is the only non-champion admitted. He won fame sledging serum with Leonhard Seppala to diphtheria infected Nome (TIME, Feb. 9, 1925). Mrs. Kaare Nansen, the onetime Mrs. Edward P. Ricker, dog racer of Poland Springs, Me. gave Togo to the museum...
Zenzinov left Verkhoyansk by reindeer sled in a last attempt to escape; had it not been for the alcohol he carried with him he might have succeeded. Encamped one night with a Chukchi herder Zenzinov foolishly gave him some alcohol to drink. The Chukchi liked it so much he kept Zenzinov a prisoner until a Russian trader came along, rescued him. By that time the authorities had their eye on Zenzinov again; he gave up hope, served out his term...
...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...
...marine will be fouled bv ice formed on its rudders and hydroplanes, will be unable to maneuver, will be frozen into any hole she makes in the ice. Warrant for the trip's success lies in Explorer Wilkins' caution, courage, foresight and ability, proved repeatedly through his explorations by sled, ship and plane. Scientific approbation of the proposed submarine excursion comes from the American Geographical Society, the Carnegie Institution, the Norwegian Geographical Insti- tution, the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History...
...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...