Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beyond the polar seas, beyond the flows of ice and snow, lies a blind spot on the map, a never-never land to the explorers of the past. Peary, Scott and Stefanson have gone on to a greater discovery and the land of the Northern mysteries is still left untouched to challenge such men as Amundson, McMillan, and Olgarssor to add the last chapter to the history of continental discovery...
...Winter when the snow is on the ground...
Blue flinty shadows of snow...
...standing, proud and sombre, in the moon's white downpour- sold for $13,000. Always it was the New England scene that attracted him- meagre pastures fenced with stones, the delicate austerity of brown fields, sparse uplands, the monotones of spring and fall, the blue, flinty shadows of snow. His painting, like his life, was in the best U. S. tradition...
...Object. The expedition will go to India this spring, ascend the Indus and establish a base in the Vale of Kashmir about May. Mr. Cherrie is to be the advance agent, preparing arrangements there before the Roosevelts arrive. In early May or June, as soon as the snow melts from the passes of the Himalayas, the party will cross and continue its explorations on the plateau of Pamir and beyond toward the Tian Shan Mountains...