Word: snow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deadly influence of whites upon these savages. Besides, it is doubtful if anyone would journey to Greenland with a view to settling there, even if the Danes would permit it. Greenland is 4,000 to 5,000 feet high throughout, rocky, craggy, eternally covered with several hundred feet of snow. A few tiny ports and harbors on the lower coast levels are open part of the year, a couple of months at most. This year the weather has been most unfavorable; a frozen and drifting sea, for a width of 30 miles, now guards the entrance to the eastern...
...Little People, the Pygmies, before one can start to track an okapi. The Pygmies- last remnants of the forest people which Stanley discovered - are suspicious, shoot poisoned arrows. Dr. Christy journeyed to the Ituri Forest on the Equator, west of Lake Albert and overlooked by the lofty snow-range of the Mountains of the Moon. There he lived for weeks in one of the Pygmy camps. After many disappointments, he at last saw a beam of sunshine fall upon the chocolate-colored back of his rare quarry. "Crack!" went his Winchester. The okapi died in great agony. Excepting an elephant...
...moral victory certainly belonged to Wisconsin, a green, untried crew, whose boat had not come out on the Hudson since 1914. It was a great victory for the West and a great defeat for the East, which could hardly have been more surprised at seeing green snow than it was at Wisconsin's feat...
Those peripheral penmen whose noses are keen for "human interest", are finding the scent at Cleveland faint and cold. Kirby, cartoonist for the World, has vented his disappointment by picturing the typical defegate masquerading in mid-winter regalia and shivering against a background of icebergs, snow and aurora borealis...
Music has displayed a certain reluctance to explore the frozen North. It was not until the time of Grieg that the possibilities of a tonal invasion of Arctic wastes and peoples was recognized. Percy Grainger and MacDowell have made tentative advances into the interpretation of the spirit of snow-lands. But it has remained for a Danish disciple of the Norwegian Grieg to bring forth a full-fledged, large-proportioned evocation of Eskimo life, of its strange superstitions and frigid passions...